Get High-Performance Secure Routing Built for Business
TNSR® is a terabit software router and VPN concentrator that delivers speed, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. Leveraging technologies like vector packet processing (VPP), TNSR software offers advanced routing and VPN capabilities for enterprises, service providers, and government organizations at an unbeatable total cost of ownership.
- Ideal for enterprise-class businesses, educational institutions, government agencies, and service providers
- Terabit router and site-to-site/remote-access VPN solution
- Extraordinary scale due to the power of Vector Packet Processing (VPP)
- Automated management via RESTCONF API or CLI
- Cloud deployment
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Why Choose TNSR?
- Routing Performance: Terabit routing that scales linearly with the capabilities of the hardware
- VPN Concentrator: Multi-100 Gbps VPN performance. Terminate 1000's of mobile and site-to-site IPSec and Wireguard® VPNs on a single resilient platform
- Full Featured: Comes with all popular routing protocols and networking technologies
- Flexible Deployment Options: Available as virtual machine instances for public and private cloud, Bare Metal Instances, and bundled with Netgate appliances
- Scalability: Easily adapts to enterprise network demands, scale up & scale out
- Cost-Effectiveness: TNSR delivers terabit-class performance, backed by a stable, self-funded company operating since 2004. Without external investors, we can maintain a lean model and pass those savings on to our customers.
Case Study
How Chitale Dairy Achieved Secure, High-Performance Networking with TNSR
Chitale Dairy is setting new standards in technology-driven dairy processing in India. Facing the challenge of managing 4.2 million routes and high traffic loads, they chose Netgate’s TNSR software for its scalability, low latency, and cost efficiency.
TNSR Data Sheet
TNSR Frequently Asked Questions
Have a burning question? You're likely not alone! Check out our FAQ's for some clarity on our most commonly asked TNSR® software questions.
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What is TNSR?
TNSR® is Netgate’s a high-performance software router. It is designed and built from the ground up, using open source software projects including Vector Packet Processing (VPP), Data Plane Developer Kit (DPDK), Free Range Routing (FRR), strongSwan, Clixon, YANG data model and more.
TNSR software can scale packet processing from 1 to 1000 Gbps and beyond on commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware - enabling a number of secure networking applications to be delivered for a fraction of the cost of legacy brands.
TNSR can be deployed on bare metal, VMware, KVM, or bundled with a Netgate appliance.
It can be managed by CLI or RESTCONF API - the latter enabling multiple instances to be configured and managed via orchestration.
What performance can I expect with TNSR?
TNSR has outstanding packet per second (PPS) and Gigabits per second (Gbps) throughput that scales directly with hardware. Exact performance will always depend on type of traffic, underlying hardware, and network design.
See our performance page below for a list of criteria to consider, as well as our latest test setups and results:
How do I manage TNSR?
TNSR can be managed via Command Line Interface (CLI), RESTCONF API (an HTTP-based protocol that provides a programmatic interface for accessing data defined in a YANG data model), or Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
Available commands and capabilities are chronicled in our documentation.
CLI detail can be found in our documentation here:
https://docs.netgate.com/tnsr/en/latest/basics/index.html
RESTCONF API detail can be found in our documentation here:
https://docs.netgate.com/tnsr/en/latest/api/
SNMP detail can be found in our documentation here:
https://docs.netgate.com/tnsr/en/latest/monitoring/snmp.html
Do you provide API examples?
Yes. A growing number of API code modules are already written and openly shared in our documentation here, including the ability to choose exact syntax by TNSR software release.
What are my technical support options?
TAC Pro support from the Netgate TAC (Technical Assistance Center) is included with all TNSR software subscriptions, including AWS and Azure. TAC Enterprise is an optional upgrade that expands contact options and speeds response time. Details can be found here.
Users can also visit the Netgate forum to ask a questions or get community assistance. Even though it's a community-driven forum, Netgate TAC Support actively monitors the forum and will help as they can.
Is TNSR beneficial to any existing pfSense software users?
pfSense software users appear in every vertical, and every
As a home user…
- I have an edge router, firewall and/or VPN appliance equipped with 1 or 10 Gbps NICs. But, the software cannot perform packet processing functions fast enough. This means I am underutilizing my hardware and/or network connection speed.
- My internet connection now has to deal with more application traffic owing to work at home, household users who are big gamers,
an increased use of VoIP, etc. I’ve noticed some performance degradation, specifically slower response time. I’d like to claw that back. - I’m really not a big pfSense package user, I just want raw speed for the buck. I built my own appliance. I know the exact access control list (ACL) configuration I want. I just wish I had high-performance firewall software that could keep up with my appliance.
- I run a
homelab . By definition, I can never have too much bandwidth. More importantly, I’m really curious about advanced networking capabilities and want to dive into APIs and Python programming - a necessity for tomorrow’s network engineers. I cannot do that with pfSense software.
As a Small to Medium Business (SMB) user…
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IoT has led to many more devices using my network uplink, and we are starting to get complaints from our users that things aren’t as fast as the used to be.
- We bought a new security gateway with 10 Gbps uplinks, but our firewall software cannot run at even 10% of that speed.
- More and more of our inter-site traffic is sent over IPsec. We know that leads to a sharp throughput decline. Regardless, we still want to use our high-speed links more extensively.
As an Enterprise user…
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We have to have high-speed IPsec connections between our business locations. The same goes for corporate and remote office links to our data center and cloud instances. 1 and 10 Gbps speeds are de rigueur for us. We’ve spared no expense on for the fastest hardware. We need secure networking software that doesn’t cause it to sputter under load.
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Intellectual property protection is everything for us. Tight control over each employee and contractor’s application access is a must for us. When a risk is identified, we must be able to administer access control changes in an instant. IT automation is critical.
As a Service Provider…
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We are running out of IPv4 address space. We need a scalable, performant way to translate large volumes of IPv4/IPv6 addresses.
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We face severe competition, and must constantly find ways to cut cost and add services quickly and easily. We see open-source software as essential to our long term viability, but do not want to be saddled with having to productize it ourselves.