Overview

 

Reduce costs

Reduce the cost of ownership while achieving consolidation and service levels of applications and Internet services. Utilising a virtual appliance enables you to predict costs and calculate capacity without increasing hardware costs.

Power effective

Reduce power consumption by consolidating and eliminating backup servers and non-critical application servers.

Create redundant systems

While Internet usage is increasing, and 99% uptime is generally expected, redundancy has the potential of increasing hardware cost and total cost of ownership.

Redundancy

Use a virtual appliance for full system redundancy while maintaining high level of Internet security, filtering, and backup without associated cost increases.

Features

 

Features of Sonar ITC-Virtual

Authentication Identity Integration

• Authentication (LDAP)
• NTLM/NTLM-Terminal Services
• Multi-platform agent
• Active Directory pass-through authentication
• Secure token
• Captive portal
• Browser (header) based
• Ticket-based (temporary access) 
• IP/MAC address

Internet Security

• Stateful inspection firewall
• Reverse proxy
• Group policy based routing
• Link aggregation (3G included)
• High Availability (Active/Active/Passive)
• DoS protection
• Anti-malware
• Group-based packet shaping (QoS)
• Network Address Translation (NAT)
• VLAN support
• IPSec VPN remote access
• Bandwidth monitoring
• Real-time monitoring network usage and web traffic
• Network traffic reporting
• Anti-spam

Internet Filtering

• Web filtering proxy
• Outgoing mail filtering
• Quota management
• Billing
• Internet caching
• Summary reporting
• Cyber safety reporting
• Statistical page analysis
• Page censorship regular expressions
• Anonymous proxy rule-based blocker
• URL categorisation service
• Exception management
• MySonar™ self-service reporting

 

 

Item	Metric
Specification
System Specification
Operating Systen	Sonar OS
Interfaces	1
Power Supply	Virtual
Rack Module	Virtual
Supported Platforms
Hypervisors	VMWare EX, ESXi, Citrix XenServer
Network Performance Metrics
Firewall Throughput p/s*	350Mbps
Max User Database	1000
Recommended capacity
Number of Students	201-1000
Number of Devices **	101-400
Concurrent Users **	Up to 50

* Throughput figures depend on the hardware model, CPU and RAM and standard packet size for protocol testing

** Capacity recommendations are based on industry standards or average page size, and user page per minute ratio

 

Screenshots

 

Blue Reef's runs natively on all three standard industry virtualisation platfroms.

The Blue Reef Sonar operating system is configured and engineered to be compliant with the virtualised platforms memory, file system and virtual networking requirements, and is optimised and fine-tuned to execute on a virtual instance.