VPN Gateway-to-Gateway Failover
XiNCOM XC-DPG503 is a VPN capable Dual WAN Gateway with industry standard IPsec encryption. It provides extremely secure Gateway-to-Gateway connectivity over the Internet. The 503 supports VPN by encryption, encapsulation, and authentication using the following methods: DES/3DES/AES, MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-2; up to 30 IPsec tunnels are permitted. VPN connection redundancy is maintained by VPN Auto Failover. In the event of a VPN tunnel failing, the XC-DPG503 will re-establish the tunnel with the second WAN port connection.
Reliable & Rendundant Internet Access
Using two separate ISPs provides redundant connectivity to the Internet. In the event that one ISP goes down, the XC-DPG503 automatically fails over to the other ISP service. Redundancy to the Internet provides a truly uninterrupted connection for a business's customers while maintaining uptime and productivity for its employees.
Advanced Features & Robust Security
Two WAN ports that allow you to connect two separate broadband connections of any type, including Cable, DSL and/or T1 for ultimate automatic failover and full load balancing services. The XC-DPG503 also features NAT, a Stateful Packet Inspection Firewall, DHCP server, Access Filters, and VPN pass-through to secure a business's network services. The Quality of Service (QoS) feature schedules and directs a network's traffic to take advantage of available bandwidth. UPnP support can dynamically open and close ports required by certain software automatically. Increased bandwidth and redundant connectivity to the Internet provides cost-effective bandwidth solutions to expensive leased telecommunication lines for your network infrastructure.
Product Description:
XiNCOM XC-DPG503 is a VPN capable Dual WAN Gateway with industry standard IPsec encryption. It provides extremely secure LAN-to-LAN over the Internet.
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Xincom XC-DPG503 Twin WAN VPN Gateway
Manufacturer: XiNCOM ProductGroup: CE Binding: Electronics  Networking & Online Communication
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ASIN: B0002OQXCS |
Product Description
XiNCOM XC-DPG503 is a VPN capable Dual WAN Gateway with industry standard IPsec encryption. It provides extremely secure LAN-to-LAN connectivity over the Internet. The 503 supports VPN by encryption, encapsulation, and authentication using the following methods: DES/3DES/AES, MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-2; up to 50 IPsec tunnels are permitted. VPN connection redundancy is maintained by VPN Auto Failover. In the event of a VPN tunnel failing, the XC-DPG503 will re-establish the tunnel with the second WAN port connection.The XC-DPG503 has dual WAN ports that allow you to connect two broadband connections of any type, including Cable, DSL and/or T1 for ultimate redundancy via the automatic fail-over and increased bandwidth through load-balancing. With features like NAT, SPI Firewall, DHCP server and Access Filters makes this a must have all-in-one solution for any small to medium size network.This gateway is very easy to configure and managed with a HTTP graphical user interface (GUI), remote web management, e-mail alerts and SNMP. Additionally this router can be used within a network with support for Static Routing and RIP-1/RIP-2 Dynamic Routing. With the addition of UPNP you will be able to dynamically open and close ports required by certain software automatically. With QoS you will be able to schedule and direct your network traffic to take advantage of your available bandwidth.Customer Reviews:
Don't pass this up..........2007-06-01
I've been a Linksys Router user forever and I didn't want to change, but after my router melted one day (no clue why), I had to make a change and a load balancing router looked like a good way to go.
Amazingly enough, all the little irritations I had with my LAN went away after installing this (something that took about 2 minutes).
No more weird connection drops, no more constantly needing to reboot my router (this from my ISP) because nobody could identify why we couldn't access the internet. This thing looses something, it hunts it down and pushes it back to my machines.
I didn't understand all the things it will do when I purchased it, but was very glad to find this could grow with me as I needed it.
I guess the best compliment I can pay this unit is that I'm looking for the next model up so I can send this unit to another branch while I buy a new one for my office.
This is one of the best routers under $500 I've seen.
Great Product.......2007-04-10
I read the directions, installed the router and it worked as advertised.
I've been using it for over a year without a single complaint. I called Support one time. They answered immediately and answered my question quickly and professionally. A question, which if i'd read the manual more carefully, I'd have been able to answer myself. My problem, for the curious, was in connecting to a site that blocks multiple simultaneous logins to the same account with differing IP addresses. High security sites often impose this type of acess restriciton. A quick visit to the setup page was all it took to toggle the appropropriate switch and gain access.
I swear you don't have to be an IT pro to use this product successfully. Appearently, however, it helps not to be an idiot.
Advanced Features Work as Advertised.......2006-05-01
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.
One star, IF you can get the beta firmware with fixes (else zero).......2005-12-04
Xincom could not get the port binding and other features to work, either. It took them two rounds of new firmware over a period of several weeks to get port binding to work. They partially fixed another feature for me, as well. But, all of these fixes are in beta firmware that is still not posted on their firmware download page several months later.
I am using the router in my RV to access both my slow-but-secure satellite internet connection and RV parks' fast-flakey-insecure Wi-Fi connections. With the beta firmware I am able to route email and ftp traffic which uses clear-text passwords across the slow-but-secure satellite connection. I let the router load balance everything else. If you have similar needs, this product might work alright for you IF you get the same beta firmware: "Ver 3.2 Rel 2S Beta 01 Built Date: Sep 12 2005".
But don't count on any other features beyond the basic functionality that you can get from any inexpensive router to work as advertised. And forget about the PDF manual that comes with it. It is nothing more than a restatement of field names that you will see on configuration screens, but with more errors.
Avoid this device like the plague ...........2005-09-27
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