Today, no fewer than a half-dozen other vendors are offering competitively priced products geared toward smaller offices. SonicWall products let you stop various types of hacker attacks, such as denial of service, ping of death, Syn flooding, and IP spoofing. They also support IP address management, Internet content filtering, and Web browser management, as well as an optional IPSec VPN upgrade, which provides secure communications between two or more locations. The company's SonicWall Pro, which began shipping earlier in 1999, is the flagship configuration of the product line. Besides including the VPN component, the product features a real-time operating system based on Intel's 233MHz StrongArm processor.
All information is stored in the unit's flash upgradable memory.
Sonic is targeting this particular product at branch offices and companies with midsized networks.