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- title: Firewalls
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- # Firewalls, Bandwidth Management and Link Aggregation and Failover
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- <img src="/assets/firewalls.png">
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- ## Overview
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- A firewall is a hardware + software solution that connects and shares
- Internet bandwidth with your local network. It isolates and protects
- the local network from the Internet and also allows you to securely
- expose specific applications, services and servers on the local
- network.
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- A bandwidth management solution helps you monitor your bandwidth usage
- and then allows you to define bandwidth and Internet usage priorities
- and policies.
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- A link aggregation and failover solution lets you connect multiple
- Internet links to your firewall so that you can have more bandwidth
- available to users on the local network. This also means that you
- don’t rely on a single Internet link or ISP for your Internet
- connectivity needs.
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- ## Common Problems
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- * You have a firewall but you need to repeatedly call a service provider or
- vendor to manage the rules for you.
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- * You have a lot of Internet bandwidth but your Internet usage and experience
- is slow.
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- * When large or bulk files are repeatedly downloaded, it causes a slowdown for
- other users.
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- * It is impossible to account for your bandwidth utilisation.
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- * When your main Internet link goes down, or is slow, it cuts off the entire
- network from the Internet
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- * You are having to depend on third-party ISPs to provide high- speed and
- unrestricted access to the Internet
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- * Even when you have multiple links to the Internet, you might not be able to
- use them all at the same time. Or specify policies on who can use which one
- at what time.
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- ## Benefits
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- * No dependency on 3rd party for firewall management.
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- * No risk of usage data being sent to a firewall vendor's cloud setup for
- analysis – thereby, ensuring better privacy for users
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- * Optimal utilisation of all the available Internet links simultaneously and
- automatic failover
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- * Fair sharing of bandwidth amongst users so that prioritised traffic and users
- always get the required bandwidth
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- * Actionable Internet utilisation reports
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- * Caching of frequently accessed content from the Internet saves bandwidth and
- improves user experience
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- * Extended caching of bulk content like OS updates, Anti-Virus updates etc
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- * Granular Web Access controls depending on user, time of day, day of week,
- content-type, request-type etc
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- * Logs can be retained for as long as required for data and trend analysis
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- * User identity and authentication is mapped from a singular, campus-wide
- service that is used for all other applications as well
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