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(More customer reviews)We'd never heard of this company, but in early 2005 we needed a dirt cheap and reliable way to add redundant IPSEC VPN among mulitiple datacenters. These boxes offered the right feature set and the right price.
After configuring the first of 10 XC-DPG503's through the web interface, it was a trivial matter to grab the config file as a text file, update it for each additional datacenter, and apply the updated file to each of the other 9 Xincoms.
We shipped them to 10 datacenters, and everything worked perfectly the first time.
The original appliances have now been in use well over a year, and we've added several more. We're also using them for our offices, to balance between T1 lines and business cable-modem or business DSL lines. Impressively, every feature works perfectly, even though the T1 is static IPs and the cable/DSL lines are dynamic. In any given office, we can decide how to route SMTP (outbound mail) traffic, we can map VOIP ports for multiple SIP phones, and we can even support inter-office network gaming. Naturally, the DMZ features of the device work very well, supporting the mapping of specific ports on public IPs to private development servers.
At one office, a single Xincom XC-DPG503 manages 25 workstations, 10 servers, 6 SIP phones, 4 Xbox 360s (w/ Xbox Live accounts), 4 Media Center Edition boxes, 4 broadband connected Tivos, a Microsoft Exchange server, and both inbound and outbound VPN tunnels for the appropriate internal subnets and external datacenters.
While all this could be done with Linux servers, these are inexpensive appliances, with super-fast (a few seconds) reboots, that don't mind adverse environments (in one office, one of them is installed in a boiler room) that would give a "server" fits. No Linux admin is necessary.
One note: I see many negative reviews here. These are ADVANCED devices. If you're a Linksys, Dlink, Belkin, etc. user, these are probably not for you. If you don't know the diff between IPSEC, PPTP, etc for VPNs, not for you. Don't know how the handshake process for establishing an IPSEC tunnel works, not for you. But if you do know those things, and don't want to waste valuable time setting up a Linux box or Windows 2003 to handle these things, these are fantastic.
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The XC-DPG503 is a dual WAN Internet gateway that allows you to connect two Internet connections such as Cable and DSL for ultimate redundancy and increased bandwidth.Using two Internet connection types in any combination provides maximum up-time for your network while load balancing uses both connections concurrently to increase your network's total bandwidth.Built-in IPSec encryption provides secure LAN-to-LAN connectivity over the Internet with support for up to 30 IPSec tunnels. The XC-DPG503 also provides VPN Auto Failover when connected with another XC-DPG503.Additional features like NAT, SPI Firewall, DHCP server and Access Filters makes the XC-DPG503 an all-in-one solution for any small business network.
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