Product Review

Consumer and business customers will quickly appreciate that this product packs a serious punch with the factory edition of pfSense software, world-class price-performance, elegant packaging, and an unbeatable low price. The SG-1100 is underpinned by the powerful, yet energy efficient, 64-bit Marvell ARMADA 3720 network processing system-on-chip (SoC), which fully leverages dual Cortex-A53 ARM processor cores. pfSense software is an open source firewall and router platform that is functionally competitive with expansive, proprietary commercial firewalls. This platform can be configured as a stateful packet filtering firewall, a LAN or WAN router, VPN appliance, DHCP server, DNS server, or can be configured for other applications and special purpose appliances. This next generation pfSense security appliance features include: -Stateful packet filtering firewall or pure router -Routing policy per gateway and per-rule for multiple WAN, load balancing -Transparent layer 2 firewall -Support for IPV6, NAT, BGP -Captive portal with MAC filtering, RADIUS support, etc -VPN: IPsec, OpenVPN, PPTP -Dynamic DNS client -DHCP Server and Relay functions -PPPoE Server -Reporting and monitoring features with real time information Use as your - Router / Firewall -IoT gateway / security endpoint -Network tap -IPMI / BMC firewall Technical Specifications: SoC: Marvell Armada 3720LP (88F3720) dual core ARM Cortex A53 processor @ 1.2GHz System Memory: 1 GB DDR4 RAM on board Storage: 8 GB EMMC Network Interfaces: 1x Marvell 88E6141 networking switch, 3x GbE Ethernet (WAN/LAN/OPT), 1x Mini PCIe slot(1) USB:1x USB 3.0,1x USB 2.0,1x Micro USB port (console) Misc: Reset button, heatsink, 3 Status LED Power: 12V 2A DC 5.5mm x 2.1mm x 10mm jack, center pin positive (power over USB not supported) Power Consumption: 3.48W (idle) Operating Temperature: 0°C (32°F) to 45°C (113°F) No additional storage media therefore not appropriate to run Snort, Suricata, or other log intensive applications.