These allow for the remote loading of LAN devices from the central site. The Service Managed Gateway tracks the history of every ISDN call that passes through the system and can display the call usage log in user-friendly histograms through the user's browser. By recording not just call information, but details of 'who' and 'why' a call was made, configuration errors on the LAN can easily be identified, for example, a mail server polling every 5 minutes causing excessive dial costs. By selecting a VPN-enabled Gateway, IPsec and IKE security software can be configured to provide highly secure connections across a public IP infrastructure such as the Internet. Using the VPN option, data can be transmitted securely between applications, be they email, file transfer, web or other services.
Security is provided by the gateway with no requirement on, or visibility to the host application.
The resultant data can be viewed in the form of charts using a standard web browser. More detailed analysis can be made by using the custom monitoring capability whereby the administrator can define through a filter-like configuration the specific application or host traffic to be monitored.