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United States : Hughes Introduces HR4400 Branch Gateway Delivering Strong Security, Routing, and WAN Optimization [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes) today launched the HR4400, a new member of its HR Series Branch Gateway family that significantly lowers the cost and complexity of delivering secure, high-speed connectivity to small footprint retail organizations. The new HR4400 combines best-in-class security, routing, and WAN optimization into one affordable device that can scale from a single location to a network with thousands of branches. The Hughes HR4400 Branch Gateway is designed to meet the demanding security and application performance needs of multi-branch organizations and single-site franchise operators in quick service restaurants, retail petroleum, convenience stores, and specialty retail. In addition to delivering the highest levels of security and performance, the HR4400 incorporates sophisticated management features that make it easy to deploy and operate as part of HughesON Managed Network Services, the fully managed turnkey solution offering from Hughes. In today s networking environment, the importance of network security cannot be over-emphasized, said Sam Baumel, vice president, Commercial Sales & Marketing at Hughes. Our new HR4400 platform is designed for small footprint businesses that need the power and performance of an enterprise-grade solution but with a cost-effective and easy-to-manage device to secure mission-critical applications, such as credit and debit card transactions, in a PCI-compliant environment. As with other members of the HR Branch Gateway family, the HR 4400 integrates functionality that previously required multiple single-function devices into a single, affordable product that optimizes performance of new cloud services and partner applications and can also support new secure payment platforms such as EMV and mobile devices. Strong Security The HR4400 incorporates best-in-class security protection from Fortinet, enabling Hughes to provide next-generation firewall and advanced capabilities such as Intrusion Detection/Prevention, content filtering, and anti-virus/anti-malware protection from advanced threats all centrally managed by Hughes. The integrated FortiOS 5 secure operating system and 2nd generation FortiASIC system-on-chip (SOC2) deliver up to twice the unified threat management (UTM) performance of competing UTMs, with superior price/performance and reduced power consumption all in one device. Best-in-class Performance The HR4400 incorporates exclusive Hughes optimization technologies: ActiveQoS enables true end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) over best effort broadband circuits to deliver consistent enterprise-class application performance even at full network load; ActiveCompression delivers up to 20 times the network capacity as available virtual bandwidth for greater throughput and application performance without costly link upgrades. (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info, an Albawaba.com company |