WinRoute Firewall gains multiple link support, more localisations

Stephen Withers
Tuesday, 09 September 2008 13:45

Business IT - Technology

The latest version of Kerio's WinRoute Firewall application includes the ability to balance traffic across multiple Internet connections.

Kerio vice president of worldwide marketing Dusan Vitek explained that the new feature was a response to requests from customers outside major metropolitan areas who are unable to access high-capacity connections such as fibre optic links, and therefore use multiple DSL lines instead.

WinRoute Firewall 6.5 can transparently combine multiple links into one virtual connection. Traffic is balanced across the available connections for maximum performance, and if any link fails all of the data it was carrying is transferred to another line.

Where certain applications such as videoconferencing require significant bandwidth, specific links can be reserved for that purpose.

Since WinRoute Firewall is a software product, the number of lines it can handle is restricted only by the hardware customers choose to run it on. If the PC can be fitted with eight Ethernet ports, it can be connected to eight DSL modems.

Another change in version 6.5 is additional localisation, including Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, French and Spanish.

Features first appearing in previous versions include VPN support, gateway antivirus with one or two scanning engines (covering HTTP, FTP and SMTP traffic), content filtering using IBM technology, and user and network activity reporting.

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