Protect and secure your Microsoft-based application infrastructure with a MSA Security appliance from Celestix's comprehensive product suite. New!! MSA comes with FairShare, a Bandwidth Management Tool.
The MSA security appliance is based on new Celestix’s Scorpio-X appliance hardware platform. Specifically designed for network security, Scorpio-X, with its great capabilities and high-speed I/O device, has the best price/performance hardware platform to deliver Microsoft ISA Server 2006 security solutions.
FairShare, a full-featured bandwidth manager now included as a standard feature on MSA. It allows you to control the mix traffic which leaves or enters your corporate networks and remote sites. You can limit and guarantee bandwidth, give priority, provide minimum latency, mark for DiffServ and 802.1p, and apply other policies to users, groups of users, applications, and destinations. Policies can be set by time of day or network load levels.
Each appliance offers a single, integrated solution and features:
- Microsoft ISA Server 2006
- Celestix SlingShot appliance engine - includes Web based UI for easy configurations, one button recovery system and update services
- A purpose-built, hardened Celestix Windows based MSA platform
- FairShare Bandwidth Management Tool
- LCD coupled with jog dial for easy configurations
- True Gigabit network throughput
- PCI-Express architecture
MSA Network Diagram
Designed for:
- A range of security needs - from small office to enterprise
- Scalability - to meet continually increasing network needs
- Maximum uptime
- Seamless network and Active Directory integration
- Expandability
- Branch office gateway
- Connecting users in remote locations
- Publishing Exchange, SharePoint or any web-based application securely
- Web access protection
Features at a glance
- High performance appliance with Microsoft ISA Server 2006
- Integrated solution with security-optimized hardware, operating system,and applications
- Enhanced security architecture with application layer filtering
- Websense Web Security Suite (optional and licenses sold separately)
- QoS and Bandwidth Management
- PCI-Express Interface
- Supports all industry standard protocols
- Appliance form factor
- Management through graphical Web UI
- 1:1 Failover Safeguards Appliances when configured as active/passive pairs (MSA2000i/3000i/4000i) or active/active (MSA3000b/4000b/5000e/6000e)
- LCD front panel for easy network configuration and status display
- One button system recovery to factory default and last known good version
- Deploy Firewall, VPN and Caching solution in less than 15 minutes
- Hardened Microsoft Windows Server 2003
- RoHS compliant hardware platform
MSA Series overview
Microsoft ISA 2006 |
Platform |
Business Type |
Business needs |
[i]
Workgroup Edition |
MSA2000
MSA3000
MSA4000
MSA5000
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Small to medium enterprise |
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[b]
Branch Enterprise Edition |
MSA3000
MSA4000 |
Branch office/Regional office/Medium Enterprise |
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[e]
Enterprise Edition |
MSA5000
MSA6000 |
Medium to large enterprise |
 Branch office gateway - securely and efficiently connecting branch offices
Secure application publishing - Publishing Your Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, and Other Web Application Servers
Web access protection - protecting Your IT Infrastructure From Internet-Based Threats
Web filtering and protection - Websense
Network Load-balancing, high availability and clustering up to 31 nodes per array.
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Add-on Solutions for Celestix MSA
Content Filtering
• Websense Security Suite
Built on an enterprise-class Internet filtering platform, Websense Enterprise helps companies to improve employee productivity, conserve bandwidth, and mitigate security risks. Websense Enterprise integrated with MSA allows businesses to detect and manage employee access to the Internet and network applications such as Instant Messaging and Peer-to-Peer. Websense Enterprise leverages the packet-capturing capabilities of MSA allowing organizations to scale reliably as transaction volumes increase.
Anti-Virus
• Kaspersky® Anti-Virus
Kaspersky® Anti-Virus for Microsoft ISA Server is a tightly integrated solution that protects all incoming HTTP and FTP traffic on the local network. The application offers protection not only from viruses, but also from potentially harmful programs.
The solution is based on the Kaspersky Anti-Virus Engine, which provides one of the highest detection rates of malicious programs in the world.
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