SonicWALL adds wireless firewall for small businesses & home offices

Sunnyvale, CA, March 14, 2005 -- (MobileVillage) -- SonicWALL today introduced the SonicWALL TZ 150 Wireless, a security appliance designed for small businesses and home offices that integrates secure 802.11b/g wireless and a deep packet inspection firewall.

The company claims that the TZ 150 is the first sub-$500 wireless firewall capable of scanning both wired and wireless traffic at the gateway for viruses, spyware and application-level attacks.

The TZ 150 Wireless provides wireless client security through a choice of enforced VPN encryption, WEP or WPA using either PSK or EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS or EAP-PEAP. An additional layer of wireless security is provided by wireless intrusion detection and prevention and rogue access point detection with automated alerting and logging providing administrators a pinpoint view of the network airspace.

Through SonicWALL's Wireless Guest Services, users can also easily provide secure guest Internet access without compromising the security of the Local Area Network.

The TZ 150 Wireless can be managed locally through a Web interface or remotely via HTTPS or as part of a multi-firewall and VPN environment using SonicWALL's Global Management System.

Designed for networks with less than 10 users sharing a DSL, cable or other broadband connection, the TZ 150 Wireless supports 802.11b/g wireless LAN (WLAN) technology for 54 Mbps wireless performance while delivering 30+ Mbps of packet firewall, 10+ Mbps of 3DES/AES VPN, and 5+ Mbps of deep packet inspection throughput on a combination of both the wired and wireless LANs, according to SonicWALL.

The TZ 150 Wireless retails for US $495 and ships with 30 day subscriptions to Gateway Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and Intrusion Prevention Service, Content Filtering Service, and 5 enforced desktop anti-virus clients.

For more information about SonicWALL, see the SonicWALL web site, or the company's summary page on MobileVillage.

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