In today's cost-conscious environment, companies are turning to the Internet to connect remote offices to applications, information, and other corporate resources. You need to efficiently deploy and manage tens, hundreds, or even thousands of VPN gateways - with limited IT staff. You need cost-effective, reliable security gateways that integrate into your infrastructure and protect against increasingly sophisticated Internet-based attacks.Check Point's VPN-1 UTM Edge security appliances provide enterprises with secure connectivity for their remote sites. By delivering Check Point firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, and antivirus technologies in a single solution, VPN-1 UTM Edge ensures remote sites stay as secure as the corporate site. To simplify security management for large remote site deployments, VPN-1 UTM Edge devices can be centrally managed alongside other Check Point security solutions.The VPN-1 UTM Edge XU provides complete remote access and site-to-site connectivity, broadband-level performance, high availability, and powerful central management. The XU delivers Firewall/VPN throughput of 150/30 Mbps, does not have a license limitation for users, allows 25 remote access VPN users, and supports site-to-site VPN tunnels. The XU features a 4-port LAN switch, 1 WAN port, 1 DMZ/WAN2 port, and 1 serial port.