Draytek Vigor 2952 Router/Firewall

Product Description

Vigor 2952 Dual-WAN Router Firewall and; Load Balancer The Vigor 2952 is a router/firewall with two Gigabit Ethernet WAN ports providing load balancing or failover for up to two WAN connections. WAN1 can be selected as either RJ-45 or SFP format (SFP is for fibre modules). There are four LAN RJ-45 ports (Gigabit). The Vigor 2952 runs Dray Tek's own Dray OS operating system providing familiarity for users of other existing Dray Tek products. Robust and; Comprehensive Firewall Security is always taken seriously with Dray Tek routers. The firewall protects against attacks including Do S (Denial of Service) attacks IP-based attacks & access by unauthorised remote systems. Wireless Ethernet & VPN are also protected by various protection systems. The Dray Tek object-based firewall allows even more setup flexibility than ever enabling you to create combinations of users rules & restrictions to suit multi-departmental organisations. The Vigor 2952 now also allows selective direction firewall rules of LAN to WAN WAN to LAN or LAN to VPN. In addition Qo S (Quality of Service Assurance) can now be selectively applied to specific users. High Availability For mission critical applications a pair of Vigor 2952's can be set up in high-availability mode
- also known as 'hardware failover'. This removes the Vigor 2952 as a single point of failure if it ceases operation or is damaged
- the standby router takes over operations. Web Content Filtering The content control features of the Vigor 2952 means that you can set restrictions on web site access blocking download of certain file or data types blocking specific web sites with whitelists or blacklists blocking IM/P2P applications or other potentially harmful or wasteful content. Restrictions can be per user per PC or universal. Using Dray Tek's Global View service you can block whole categories of web sites (e.g. gambling adult sites etc.) subject to an annual subscription to the Cyren Globalview service which is continuously updated with new or changed site categorisations or sites which have become compromised (such as infected with Malware). User Management/ Authentication The Vigor 2952 has built-in user management which means that you can provide conditional internet access to different users based on their own unique login (stored in the router or on an external Radius server) & including the restrictions of web content filtering (above) too. For full details of this feature click here. 3G/4G Cellular Data Features The Vigor 2952's USB (Universal Serial Bus) port can host a compatible 3G/4G/LTE USB (Universal Serial Bus) modem for access to the cellular network for full Internet Access as your primary or failover WAN connectivity. Network Attached Storage (NAS) Either of the Vigor 2952's USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports can also be used to add storage memory to the unit in the form of a USB (Universal Serial Bus) memory stick. That memory can be used for recording syslogs or accessed as a simple FTP/file storage for users local or remote (password protected). Requires a USB (Universal Serial Bus) memory stick (up to 64 Gb FAT32 formatted). WAN Load Balancing and; Backup The Vigor 2952's two WAN interfaces can be used either for WAN-Backup or load balancing. Each of the 2 WAN Ethernet ports can be connected to any Ethernet-based Internet connection such as a DSL modem cable modem leased line etc. One port can use an SFP module instead of Ethernet. In Load-balancing mode the router will spread your Internet sessions across all Internet connections to make best use of your available total bandwidth. This can be automatic according to rules or reserving specific WAN connections for specific clients or services.WAN-Backup (failover) provides contingency (redundancy) in case of your primary connection or ISP sufferers temporary outage. Internet Traffic will be temporarily routed via the second third or fourth Internet connection. When normal services is restored to your p