16 Mar, 2009
Napera review roundup
Although it’s been quiet on the blogging front, we’ve been fortunate to have some positive reviews of Napera products out there on the Interwebs in the last month.
Matt over at Hak5 signed up for the Napera Indigo beta test last month and gave our product a thorough workout on screen in Hak5 Episode 501. He followed up in Episode 502 with an overview of Napera authentication on wireless networks. The team at Hak5 certainly look like they have a lot of fun reviewing products, but we’re still waiting for our challenge to a game of Left4Dead!
Randy George at InformationWeek followed up with an extensive review of the Napera N24, calling it a ‘unique beast’ that ‘puts a wide array of capabilities into a single package that deploys in minutes’. We especially liked the following quote in these cost conscious times.
From a budget perspective, if you’re planning to spend a couple of thousand dollars on a lower-end 24-port Gigabit Ethernet switch and firewall, it might make sense to pony up a little more cash and get the turnkey NAC and captive portal features that N24 provides. If you’re upgrading to Windows Server 2008 just to add NAP to your mix of security tools, the N24 makes even more sense once you factor in the hardware and licensing costs.
