Appliance Overview

The Iron Networks nUAG 5500U is an enterprise grade, comprehensive, secure remote access management gateway appliance based on an embedded version of Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010. It delivers secure, anywhere-access to messaging, collaboration, and other resources, increasing productivity while maintaining compliance with policy.

Iron Networks nUAG 5500U is a single scalable and highly manageable solution for administrators to deliver corporate-wide access and implement granular policies based on the user's identity and the health of the device - fully integrated, easy to deploy  with turnkey “out of the box” convenience which includes:

Remote Access to SharePoint, Exchange and 3rd Party Business Application: Optimized for SharePoint and Exchange, UAG delivers secure, anywhere access for your employees, partners and customers. Leveraging a combination of granular application filtering capabilities, deep endpoint health detection and wizard driven configuration-UAG provides for a simple and highly secure means of publishing Exchange and SharePoint deployments.

Comprehensive Remote Access (SSL VPN): As a comprehensive SSL VPN, UAG provides multiple levels of access and tunneling to deliver internal applications and network resources to remote users.

DirectAccess: UAG extends the benefits of DirectAccess across the infrastructure, enhances scalability, and simplifies deployment and ongoing management.

Net-Gateway nUAG-5500U Remote Access Platform Key Features

The Iron Networks nUAG 5500U is ideal for Very Large Size Enterprises deployments; it’s a purpose-built, 1U rack-optimized and most competitive secure remote access solutions appliance platform in its class.

Scalability, High Availability and Array Management

• High Availability Array Support: Multiple Forefront nUAG appliances can be grouped into a load balancing redundant array using integrated Forefront NLB functionality or an external hardware based load balancer to scale linearly, increasing capacity for throughput and number of users.
• Array Management: All array members share the same configuration, including trunks, published application, permission files, custom files, and VPN settings.
  • Processor: 64-bit Dual Processor, eight core Xeon x86 processor architecture. High-speed processor, cache, larger memory and multi lane PCIe bandwidth designs for maximized deep packet content inspection acceleration with lowest packet latency, highest system throughput and unfaltering scalability to support large number of processor intensive integrated security applications workload.
  • Network Ports: 8 GbE LANs - High network port density provides the performance and operational flexibility and redundancy required to secure a high-availability network infrastructure, along with economies of scale needed by large companies, enterprise, data centers, and service providers.
  • Lights-Out Port: Remote Lights-Out-Management (LOM) via dedicated iKVM network Port guarantees uninterrupted Out-Of-Band remote access even when appliance is off.
  • SSL Accelerator: Embedded high performance Cavium SSL Co-processor hardware for 100% TCP/IP Offload for enhanced system stability and performance at peak loads.
  • High System Reliability: Maximum uptime through superior thermal design, component-level redundancy, serviceability and built-in remote lights-out appliance management system:
    • Disk Redundancy: Dual enterprise grade SATA disks and hardware RAID controller for disk mirroring configuration allows uninterrupted system operations in case of a single disk failure. It offers highest level of availability and no downtime while RAID array is being rebuild on replacement drive.
    • Power Supply Redundancy: Dual hot-swap, high efficiency power supply modules.
    • System Image Redundancy and Quick Recovery Option: Efficient In-Field Appliance Image Management: Multiple system image partitions. ARRMS provides PiT image recovery backup/restore, factory reset and bare-metal image recovery
  • Embedded Recovery Manager: Appliance Recovery and Remote Management System (ARRMS™) provides offline and online remote system management and maintenance to the appliance hardware and software image.
    • ARRMS operating environment functions completely independently of the main appliance hardware and software environment. The appliance can boot into "maintenance mode" where the administrator has full BIOS-level access to the hardware and software environments, even with the appliance operating system shutdown or the hardware powered off.
    • System image backup, restore and "Bare-Metal" recovery. Backup any number of system image to local disk partition, removable media or a network target, such images than can be used for a quick restore to "last good known state". Provides one-click  appliance reset  to Factory-default image
  • Embedded Web LOM Manager: Remote Lights-Out-Management (LOM) via dedicated iKVM (Keyboard, Video Mouse port access over Web) network Port guarantees uninterrupted Out-Of-Band remote access and manageability for a complete "As if you were sitting in front of it" experience.
  • Embedded LCD Manager: Headless Appliance Deployment System - Appliance systems include touch-key with graphical LCD hardware and software which allows simple installations without connecting keyboard, mouse and video monitors. This greatly simplifies installs, including remote location installs without local IT support
  • Integrated Oneface System Manager: Provides rich and robust set of feature including Backup Manager, security manager, update manager, configuration manager, SNMP agents, alert notification system and a component manager for 3rd party add-on integration
  • Integrated Security Audits: Iron Networks appliance systems are built with security best practices in mind. Various software add-ons, hardware components and system configurations will change a system profile; each of image versions is systematically packaged, tested for reliability and receives complete security audit on an ongoing basis by our security system experts.
  • An ISO 9001:2000 Certified Quality: The Net-Gateway series product line is the most integrated Microsoft Forefront network security appliances on the market. Unlike alternatives that are simply based on proprietary or general-purpose server hardware, our appliances are designed for highest reliability, optimized for maximum performance, and manufactured to exact quality specifications. Network edge security is a critical business function, trust Iron Networks to deliver reliable and comprehensive solutions, support and services.
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