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Find the Right Secure Networking Software for Your Needs

Netgate offers two very powerful, but different, secure networking solutions - pfSense Plus and TNSR.

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All-in-one network firewall, router, and VPN solution
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Ideal for home, remote worker, business, and service provider network connectivity and protection

  • Equipped with many router and firewall features typically found only in expensive commercial routers
  • Flexible VPN solution options
  • Known for robustness and stability
  • Highly extensible with 3rd party packages to support block lists, content filtering, intrusion prevention, policy-based routing and more
  • Easy to install and maintain via web GUI
  • Available for on-premises and cloud deployment
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"We've been using pfSense for our Firewall/IDS for five years - across multiple work sites with HA CARP configured - and it is outstanding. Just does most things exceptionally well."
Stephen D. FINANCIAL SERVICES
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High-performance software router with industry-leading price-performance, scalability
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Ideal for demanding service provider and business edge, campus, data center and cloud connectivity environments - where high-speed routing and encrypted traffic handling are required

  • Vector Packet Processing (VPP) with Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) enable up to two orders of magnitude speed gain over traditional kernel-based packet processing solutions
  • Software scalable to 10, 25, 40, 100 Gbps and beyond
  • Suitable for edge and core routing, site-to-site VPN, cloud connectivity, large scale NAT applications
  • Managed through CLI and/or RESTCONF API
  • Achieves super-scale routing without the six-figure price tag.
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"I really put TNSR through the paces. What I found was that I’m incapable of generating enough traffic to stress the box - without a lot of effort - and that frankly, I’ll never generate real-world traffic anywhere near its capacity."
Torstein S. SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Secure Networking Bases Covered

Whether at home or in the office, safely connecting to the digital world requires three fundamental capabilities at the network edge.

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Firewall Protection

Monitor incoming and outgoing network traffic and configure settings to allow or block specific traffic based on a defined set of security rules.

pfSense Plus

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Secure VPN

Encrypt your traffic so no one can see what you do online, or interfere with your traffic - to and from your location, across the Internet, to its far-end destination.

pfSense Plus

TNSR

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Routing Control

Connect computers and other devices to the home or business to the world, choose the best route for your information to travel, and decide which computers get priority over others.

pfSense Plus

TNSR

Deploy How You Like and Where You Need

Netgate secure networking solutions can be deployed virtually or physically on premises, and virtually in the cloud.

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Netgate 1100

The Netgate 1100 is the ideal microdevice for the home and small office network with up to 1 Gbps routing and 607 Mbps of firewall throughput.

  •  Cost-efficient / Low power
  •  Sleek, compact
  •  Silent operation (fanless)
  • Put on a desktop, shelf, or wall
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Netgate 2100

The Netgate 2100 delivers unbeatable performance and flexibility in its class. Perfect for home, remote workers, and small business deployments that require more resources for multiple add-on packages and VPN performance.

  • Cost-efficient / Low power
  • Silent operation (fanless)
  • Put on a desktop, shelf, or wall
  • Upgradeable Storage
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Netgate 4200

The Netgate 4200 with pfSense Plus software is the most versatile security gateway in its class. The 4200 utilizes the blazing fast performance of 4-core Intel Atom C1110 CPU to achieve benchmark results up to three times faster in routing, firewall forwarding and IPsec VPN than the previous generation of security gateways. The 4200 delivers over 9.2 Gbps of L3 routing across four independent 2.5 GbE flexible WAN/LAN ports.

  • For desktop or (optional) wall mount
  • Silent operation (fanless)
  • 4 x 2.5 GbE WAN/LAN interfaces (RJ45)
  • 4-core Intel Atom C1110 @ 2.1Ghz w/AVX2
  • Upgradeable storage (M.2 slots)
  • Supports dual WAN and High Availability

4200 with pfSense+

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Netgate 6100

The Netgate 6100 is ideal for pro-home, small/medium businesses, or edge deployments that require flexible port configurations to support 1 to 10 Gbps WAN capabilities across RJ45, SFP, and SFP+ ports.

  • Put on a desktop, wall, or rack
  • Silent operation (fanless)
  • Upgradeable storage (M.2 slots)
  • QuickAssist & AES-NI
  • High Availability
  • 1, 2.5, and 10 GbE Network Interfaces

6100 with pfSense+

6100 with TNSR

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Netgate 8200 

The Netgate® 8200 is ideal for remote office, small/medium business, managed service providers, and enterprise networks with high-speed 10 GbE routing requirements looking for enterprise-class performance in a rack mount configuration.  

  •  Rack mount
  • Expandable memory & storage
  • AES-NI
  • CPIC-8955 cryptographic accelerator card for QuickAssist Technology (optional) 
  • Network expandable
  • Runs pfSense Plus or TNSR software

8200 with pfSense+

8200 with TNSR

 

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Netgate 8300

The Netgate 8300, the most powerful appliance from Netgate, it's ideal for medium to large business data centers, server rooms or service providers. This unit is perfect for high-throughput and mission-critical deployments.

  • 1U rack mount
  • 11 Flexible ports for WAN/LAN configuration
  • 25G and 100G Additional network ports (option)
  • 1 x Internal 500W PSU 100V/240V AC input (hot-swappable)
  • Internal expansion slots
  • Runs pfSense Plus or TNSR software

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Customer Stories

Read customer stories to learn how pfSense Plus and TNSR software empower their businesses while saving precious budget.

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Why Netgate?

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Industry-Leading Open
Source Contribution and Leverage

The power of open source software is evident. Netgate closes the gap between open source projects and ready-to-deploy, business-assured solutions.

Did you know? Netgate packages, tests, and supports over a dozen different open-source projects into commercially-ready products with its software releases.

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Price-Performance that is
second to none

Cutting-edge packet processing performance and feature sets with no-frills, flat-rate pricing that crushes proprietary alternatives.

Did you know? With TNSR® software, Netgate uses Vector Packet Processing (VPP) that achieves ASIC-level performance, in software, for pennies on the dollar.

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Champion of low total
cost of ownership

No hidden costs. No vendor lock-in. Easily integrated into your existing management framework.

Did you know? When it comes to Netgate products you get the complete software offering, we don't nickel and dime you for extra features. But wait, There's more! You can license both of our software products for free Home and Lab use.

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Enterprise-class
customer support

24x7 TAC Support with SLAs included to provide the business assurance you need.

Did you know? Since introducing 24/7/365 TAC our Netgate Global support satisfaction rating has never dropped below 97%!

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Proven and Trusted the
World Over

Over seven million firewall, VPN, and router installs worldwide. Netgate can fulfill virtually any day-to-day or mission-critical secure networking need.

Did you know? Netgate software products are deployed across every vertical, business size, and continent. Yep, even Antarctica.

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Strong Commitment to the Open Source Movement

Ongoing contribution to numerous secure-networking open source projects including Clixon, DPDK, FD.io, FreeBSD, FRR, pfSense, strongSwan, and VPP.

Did you know? Netgate has contributed over 28,000 code commits through May 2021 to open-source projects.

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