Barracuda Networks NextGen Firewall F-Series F18 w/ 1-Year Energize Updates + Instant Replacement (BNGF18A11)

Improve Performance, Availability, and Security of Distributed Networks

Designed for modern networks, our F-Series firewalls are purpose-built to help your organization adopt cloud-based business applications and improve user productivity across highly-distributed networks. In addition to securing the network, they optimize network traffic and ensure users have access to the resources they need across on-premises, private, and public cloud environments.

In addition to next-generation firewall protection, the F-Series Firewall provides industry-leading operational efficiency and added business value by safeguarding network traffic against line outages and link quality degradation

The Barracuda F-Series Firewall delivers scalable, efficient configuration and lifecycle management across dispersed networks, and performance to business-critical applications. Industry-leading centralized management significantly lowers overall operational cost for multi-site deployments.

Enable Intelligent Network Perimeters

Security, WAN optimization, and application control features are available in all models to fit any network environment from small remote sites to large headquarters.

Provide business quality-of-service to cloud applications like Office 365 by dynamic prioritization over non-critical web traffic.

Guarantee users' access to critical applications through granular policy controls.

Dynamically balance traffic across multiple Internet connections to minimize downtime and improve performance.

Provide Quality of Service and Visibility across Distributed Environments

Barracuda NextGen Control Center ties it all together by helping you deploy, manage, and monitor firewalls across any number of sites with little administrative overhead and cost.

Eliminate the need to backhaul traffic through centrally located firewalls for business quality access.

Easily scale firewall deployments as you add more locations.

Allows companies to grow while leveraging the latest technologies in cloud and mobility.

Secure Against Advanced Threats

Secure a constantly evolving threat landscape as your organization faces zero-hour malware exploits and advanced persistent threats that routinely bypass traditional signature-based IPS and antivirus engines.

Barracuda's Advanced Threat Detection enables businesses like yours to go beyond securing and protecting their assets from intrusion and data loss.

Optimized Site-to-Site Connectivity

Securely connect networks between multiple sites.

Transparently span across up to 24 physical uplinks with VPN tunnels that are highly redundant against link loss.

Built-in traffic compression and WAN optimization effectively increase available bandwidth.

Automatically create and tear down VPN tunnels between spokes in a hub-and-spoke architecture to enhance connection quality for latency-sensitive traffic.

Ready for Virtual Environments and Hybrid Cloud Deployments

Provides secure, fast connectivity across hybrid on-premises and cloud network components.

Easily deploy as a virtual appliance for virtualized private networks in VMware, XenServer, KVM, and Hyper-V.

Provide network segmentation and security on public cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure; available both as Pay-As-You-Go and Bring-Your-Own-License.

Traffic flows can be optimized within dynamically created VPN tunnels between on-premises and cloud components to remove any performance bottlenecks.