IT infrastructure is playing a major role in today's business irrespective of domain. Dependency on information technology calls for a reliable infrastructure which is well designed, managed, secure and reliable. This scenario describe the product DNA of Mettle SE.

Threat management is only part of running an enterprise network—once you managed to achieve and maintain the security you need, there comes the problem of managing your network for best utilisation of resources, implementing priorities and policies, building high availability links, virtual LAN management and providing essential network services.

With Mettle SE, you can take control of your network and allows you follow network best practices in implementing and running your LAN and your public services. Mettle SE is designed from a network administrator's perspective. This means that Mettle SE is still evolving as our users run across new challenges, Mettle SE is committed to solve them.

Each function in Mettle SE is full-fledged and they are capable of playing respective roles in full-scale. This is proven as each installation of Mettle SE is unique—it runs a unique combination of functions in almost every installation. This also means that Mettle SE can adapt to your changing requirements.

Some of the most admired features of Mettle™ SE

• Routing (static, dynamic and policy-based routing, RIP and BGP)
• Stateful Packet Inspection Firewall
• VPN Choices (IPSec, PPTP, SSL-VPN, PPPoE)
• VALN (IEEE 802.11Q)
• Content Filtering (gateway anti-virus and categorised URL blocking)
• TCP stateful failover between two compatible SE boxes for high availability (HA) configurations
• Outbound ISP/WAN link load-balancing (with weighted round robin) and automatic failover
• Time Server (NTP) for all your DMZ and LAN Desktops to synchronise with
• IP-level bandwidth usage for accounting
• NetFlow™ export

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Mettle™ SE models

• Mettle SE 2500: 4-20 Gigabit Ether; 1U; 1x PSU
• Mettle SE 3600: 8-20 GE, 1U; 2x 300W hot-swapable PSU
• Mettle SE 3700: 2x GE, 4x FE or (optional 4x/8x GE or 2x SFP ports), 2U; 2x 400W hot-swapable PSU

Features across models are same. Only availability/redundancy and throughput vary.