Security and performance. Together without compromise.

Small businesses, retail deployments, government organizations, remote sites and branch offices can benefit from the powerful security and business-class performance of the new Dell™ SonicWALL™ TZ 205. Unlike consumer grade products, this powerful Unified Threat Management (UTM) firewall combines the most effective intrusion prevention, anti-malware and content/URL filtering with the broadest, most secure mobile platform support for laptops, smartphones and tablets. By providing full deep packet inspection (DPI) at very high performance levels, it eliminates the tradeoff between comprehensive security and performance.

TZ 205 features.

The TZ 205 provides intelligent protection, business-class performance, advanced networking features and configuration flexibility in an affordable desktop appliance that’s easy to set up, operate and manage.

High-performance security engine.

The Dell SonicWALL TZ 205 uses patented Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection®1 to examine traffic simultaneously across all ports without introducing latency to the network, enabling businesses to realize increased productivity gains.

Integrated intrusion prevention.

A tightly integrated intrusion prevention engine protects against a comprehensive array of application-layer exploits that target both servers and client machines on the network.

Advanced IPSec and SSL VPN.

Flexible connectivity options provide easy-to-use, secure, high-speed office-to-office and client-to-office remote access. With IPSec VPN, users can also connect with a Global VPN Client.

Gateway anti-virus and anti-spyware.

By blocking Trojans, viruses, key loggers and other malware at the gateway,Dell SonicWALL Gateway Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware provides the first layer of defense.
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Streamlined GUI and advanced management.

Intuitive set-up wizards and a powerful web interface ease deployment, simplify configuration, and streamline management to reduce administration time and costs.

SonicWALL® Mobile Connect™

SonicWALL Mobile Connect, a single unified client app for Apple® iOS and Google® Android™, provides smartphone and tablet users superior network-level access to corporate and academic resources over encrypted SSL VPN connections.
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Content/URL filtering.

Organizations and educational institutions can easily enforce their acceptable-use policies and protect against inappropriate, illegal and dangerous web content through content and url filtering.
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Dual-band wireless.

Ideal for retail and office environments, dual-band wireless provides integrated 802.11a/b/g/n secure wireless access for network clients over the 2.4 GHz and the 5 GHz spectrums.

Platform features.

SonicOS is engineered to reduce risk, cost and complexity by integrating state-of-the-art deep packet inspection firewall protection, wireless and VPN technologies to deliver comprehensive protection and maximum performance.

Deep Packet Inspection firewall.

Patented Dell SonicWALL Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection technology scans against multiple application types and protocols to protect against internal and external threats at both the application layer and the network layer.2

The TZ Series offers application control, gateway anti-malware, intrusion prevention and content filtering on a high performance platform through its unified and simple management interface, for state-of-the-art security at a low total cost of ownership.

WAN/ISP redundancy and failover.

The TZ Series increases network availability by seamlessly transitioning between multiple ISP connections in case of failure. High-end redundancy features provide small businesses with business continuity at levels of reliability usually reserved for larger enterprises.

WAN Acceleration.

Add a Dell SonicWALL WAN Acceleration Appliance (WXA) to a Dell SonicWALL TZ firewall to significantly reduce application latency, conserve bandwidth and significantly optimize WAN performance.

Intuitive management.

Powerful set-up wizards make it easy to quickly set up VPN Tunnels, policies and network rules, which can then be fine-tuned through an intuitive Web interface. All application and signature updates are obtained automatically by the firewall and are effective immediately without reboots or downtime.

Application Traffic Analytics.

The Dell SonicWALL Application Traffic Analytics solution provides organizations with powerful insight into application traffic, bandwidth utilization and security threats while providing enhanced troubleshooting and forensics capabilities. Businesses can easily identify non-business applications consuming network resources to modify usage policies accordingly.

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