What is a firewall, and why do I need one?

Thoth's Firewall is based upon open standards - meaning it can talk to just about any network or device. Out-of-the-box, it provides full-featured rule-based stateful packet inspection, NAT, traffic-shaping, SNMP management, UPnP support, and other features normally found in high-end firewall systems. In English: it provides everything you need to protect a small-to-medium network.

In its basic configuration, Thoth Firewall can provide up to 100mbit/s of firewall protection, 20+ concurrent VPN connections, site-to-site transparent links, and bandwidth shaping to keep your connection spry even when heavily utilized. It also includes easy configuration wizards, a concise web-based management system, and support for routing complex networks!

A challenge in every modern network is answering the question, "where did all my bandwidth go?" Even with a high-speed connection, Facebook, Myspace, Youtube and other sites can quickly suck up all the bandwidth you have. Thoth Firewall can help - it can monitor your network, showing you in real-time who is using what. It can transparently proxy your web traffic, instantly accelerating many commonly used sites. It can allocate portions of your bandwidth for important business tasks - never have your important work slowed down by frivolous surfing again!

Check back soon for data-sheets and more detailed information.