NETASQ is best known for designing and building the NETASQ UTM (Unified Threat Management) range of “all-in-one” Network Security appliances that combine multiple security features in one device.

Key features include intrusion prevention, firewall, antivirus, antispyware, antispam, content filtering, VPN access and NETASQ Vulnerability Manager for improved real-time vulnerability detection and risk management.

In order to guarantee optimal business continuity for companies of all sizes in an environment where the challenges of information security are greater than ever before, much effort has gone into ensuring that every aspect of NETASQ’s new U Series S-model helps to increase the performance, protection and control provided by the appliances.


As such, these new firewall devices are ready to take on tomorrow’s information security challenges.


Key features include:

  • • Traffic inspection up to twice as fast as other products in the same price range
  • • 1-gigabit (U500S) and 10-gigabit (U800S) fibre connectors compatible with the future deployment of FTTO (fibre to the office)
  • • The promise of a secure installation in less than 15 minutes thanks to the all-new setup wizard
  • • Support for secure removable storage media to aid companies in their compliance commitments
  • • Extreme reliability and sustainable protection with an estimated lifetime exceeding 9 years, a guaranteed return on investment

“The spectacular success of NETASQ’s U Series over the past 4 years can be traced back to the combination of technological expertise and hardware quality,” said François Lavaste, President of NETASQ’s board of directors. “With the new S models in the U Series, we have once again provided companies of all sizes with a simple, sustainable and powerful security solution capable of keeping abreast with their future needs. Apart from creating a totally new model – the U800S – we have managed to innovate and improve our range in terms of connector technology, performance, reliability, and storage capacities.”

U-Series U30 and U70 models are the ideal security solutions for small businesses or small subsidiaries of large enterprises. The exceptional performance and security levels they deliver make these appliances efficient and durable solutions.


The U120, U250 and U450 appliances benefit from the total synergy of the hardware and software architectures the development of security features at the heart of the network operating system. As such, they are capable of unequalled performance in terms of intrusion prevention combined with a full Gigabit connector technology.


In an age where voice and video are shared through the network, the U1100, U1500 and U6000 products provide multi-gigabit filtering and intrusion prevention performance.

As you move from a physical environment to a virtual network, you need a proactive, all-in-one virtual security appliance to ensure that all your protection requirements continue to be met. A mature, IPS-based Unified Threat Management solution with an integral real-time analysis will enable you to benefit from all the advantages of virtualization, including load-balancing, portability and fast data recovery.


The benefits provided by virtualisation, particularly for SMBs are clear: cost reduction, resource optimisation and easier service deployment and management, in addition to faster data recovery. However virtualisation enables multiple services, many with different trust levels, to run on the same physical platform.