Untangle Product Overview
Multi-functional Firewall Software - Open Source Content Filter and Spam Filter
The Untangle Server is a multi-function firewall. It simplifies and consolidates the many network and security products that businesses need at the gateway to the Internet. Untangle provides a powerful suite of Internet management applications for small-to-medium businesses and education institutions.
Benefits:
- Affordable – Lowest total cost of ownership of any network gateway solution on the market today.
- Comprehensive – Untangle handles web filtering, spam, network control, user management, bandwidth management.
- Flexible – Add apps at any time to suit the changing needs of your business by simply dragging & dropping them in.
- Proven – Untangle protects 1.7 million people in over 30,000 organizations worldwide.
Untangle comes as standard with these free, open-source applications:
Free Apps
- Web Filter Lite – Prevents access to undesirable web sites
- Virus Blocker – Prevents viruses from reaching computers on the network
- Spam Blocker – Stops junk email from getting through
- Captive Portal – Display a mandatory default web page to all users
- Ad Blocker – Blocks online adverts that waste network capacity
- Attack Blocker – Stops denial of service (DOS) attacks
- Phish Blocker - Protects people from identity theft "phishing"
- Spyware Blocker - Protects people from websites that install malware
- Firewall - Hides your network from the Internet
- Intrusion Prevention – Protects the network from hackers
- Protocol Control - Blocks protocols for online games, IM & P2P
- OpenVPN – Allows secure remote access to the internal network
- Reports - Shows who is doing what online
- Automatic updates - No need to install updates - we do it for you
In addition, customers can add premium applications that enhance the functionality of the Untangle Server.
Paid Apps
- Live Support – Real people with real knowledge to help when you’re stuck
- Web Filter - Block 450M+ classified websites in 53 categories and 20+ languages
- Kaspersky Virus Blocker – Best-of Breed antivirus protection, at your gateway to the Internet
- Commtouch Spam Booster – An extra layer of protection against bulk email
- WAN Balancer - Allocate traffic across up to six separate Internet connections
- WAN Failover – Automatically switch traffic to an alternate connection
- Policy Manager - Create multiple user- and time-based policies for web and remote access
- AD Connector – Use your Microsoft Active Directory server to simplify policy management and reporting
- Branding Manager – Use your own logo and messaging on Untangle server and block screens
- Bandwidth Control – visibility and control over the bandwidth consumption on your network
- Web Cache –increase responsiveness of web applications and save bandwidth costs
Packages
Untangle Apps are also available in packages that are tailored to particular customers. We have combined select free and paid apps with the Untangle Gateway, to provide the most complete, yet cost-effective offerings for our customers.
The Untangle gateway is available in three versions, each with a different bundle of applications based on the needs of your organization.
- Get everything you need right out of the gate with our Premium Package.
- Get a commercial-grade gateway with our Standard Package.
- Get started with our Lite Package and upgrade to Standard or Premium, or add individual applications as you need them.
Hardware
Untangle gives you the option of using your own hardware, purchasing a ready-to-deploy appliance, or working with one of our certified technician to tailor a solution to your needs. Untangle runs on standard hardware as a bare-metal install, or in VMware.
Untangle runs on generic Intel/AMD hardware. A Pentium III processor, 2 NICs and 512MB of RAM is the min spec for smaller networks and multi-core chips with extra RAM really make Untangle sing for larger networks. More specific sizing guidance and links to the community hardware compatibility list can be found on the Hardware Requirements wiki.
Deployment Options
Untangle has 2 network deployment options:
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