Power without Complexity

Business Appliances

The Netwidget range of Business Appliances are designed to provide small to medium sized business, or satellite office of larger organizations, with a complete set of high quality, license free software to allow safe, secure and reliable management of their business without requiring expert knowledge. A basic system can be configured in most cases by answering 3 or 4 questions. Test configure a system.

Each Appliance in the range has the following characteristics:

• Complete hardware and software package - single purchase, single point of support
• Trivial to install and configure via a secure web interface
• Unattended operation - no monitor, mouse or keyboard
• Powerful and quiet - uses less power than a 40W light bulb
• Dual LAN interfaces for secure networking
• Optional RAID 1 (mirrored) disks
• Disks hot-swapped in the event of a failure
• Optional System and Network archiving to optical media for long-term security
• Secure - All non-essential interfaces are secured by default.
• License Free

Business Appliance Functionality In techno-jargon the NetWidget Business Appliance provides: Windows Domain Controller (PDC) or Workgroup Server PPoE/DHCP client for DSL/Cable/ISP authentication Firewall (IPF) Caching Proxy Server NAT/PAT Service DNS Server Web Server E-mail server - POP3, IMAP, SMTP, webmail and calendaring DHCP server Print Server Network File storage Network Archiving Secure (SSL) web configuration and monitoring FTP server File Server VPN Service If you barely understood one of those words, it does not matter. You can still take advantage of all the functionality. If,however, you have a vaguely uncomfortable feeling that it might be important to understand some or all of them, then read our jargon buster which may help.