The ShieldLink 500EHQ enables organizations with multiple locations to have an affordable solution for automatic failover between WAN link connections. Combining the latest advancements in WAN and/or ISP link aggregation, load balancing and failover, with multi-site support and site-to-site channel bonding with stateful link failover on a high-performance hardware platform, the ShieldLink 500EHQ is the value leader in WAN optimization. The ShieldLink 500EHQ has a built-in firewall and VPN Gateway, has 10/100/1000 ports, supports 1024 domain names for inbound service, aggregates up to 25 redundant WAN links with up to 500 Mbps of bandwidth throughput, and handles up to 1,000,000 concurrent sessions. The SL 500EHQ uses "Virtual Tunneling Technology" for true WAN link channel bonding among as many as 60 locations.

ShieldLink 500EHQ…

• Built-in firewall and VPN Gateway ensures each user gets the best network experience possible over the WAN
• Provides application high-availability over the WAN
• Ensures traffic will be directed to only “available” WAN links and sites
• Enables administrators to optimize WAN traffic according to line pricing models and throughput capacity
• Enables WAN link redundancy, ISP failover and Internet high-availability among as many as 25 links for important internal and customer applications
• Supports bandwidth aggregation (both inbound and outbound) with throughput of up to 1 Gbps
• Enables site-to-site channel bonding among as many as 40 locations, providing uninterrupted Internet access for reliable performance of applications such as VPN, VoIP, etc
• Provides redundant hardware failover and monitoring capabilities for mission-critical applications to eliminate a potential single point of failure
• Provides QoS capabilities for bandwidth management to ensure your most critical applications get the bandwidth required for smooth performance
• Offers the best service and support in the industry, with 90 days of free service and support from U.S.-based factory technicians, a 30-day money-back guarantee, and a three-year warranty

Product Feature and Capability Descriptions

Businesses are looking for ways to lower monthly bandwidth costs for their Internet connectivity. ShieldLink allows you to replace expensive dedicated circuits with low-cost broadband connections (cable, DSL, wireless, etc). Alternatively, if you need additional bandwidth, rather than upgrading to an expensive dedicated circuit, can simply add a low-cost broadband connection.

Businesses also need greater Internet reliability for their employees, customers and business partners. If their Internet connection goes down, employees loose productivity, and customers can't conduct business with them.

ShieldLink manages traffic going to and from a business over the Internet over two or more Internet connections of any type. Continually checking all connections for performance and uptime, if a connection problem occurs, Ensuring Internet failover and Internet load balancing, ShieldLink directs all traffic to the working connection.

During an Internet outage, the IT department typically scrambles to find and fix the problem. With ShieldLink, when a WAN link failure occurs, the IT department only knows about it because ShieldLink sends them a notification – and they don't have to do anything about it, as ShieldLink already addressed the problem.