Notably, the SG-1100 is Netgate’s first product equipped with a Microchip® CryptoAuthentication Device which assures customers they are running authentic, unaltered pfSense software.

The product also has 1 GB DDR4 RAM 8 GB EMMC storage and a Marvell 88E6141 networking switch which drives three GbE Ethernet (WAN/LAN/OPT) ports, one Mini PCIe slot, one USB 3.0 port, one USB 2.0 port, one Micro USB port (console) and one SATA port. The SG-1100 is underpinned by the powerful, yet energy efficient, 64-bit Marvell ARMADA® 3720 network processing system-on-chip (SoC), which fully leverages dual Cortex®-A53 Arm processor cores. For Small Office Home Office (SOHO), home lab, virtual office, small to medium business, corporate branch office, and remote worker applications - as well as Managed Service Providers and Managed Security Service Providers - the SG-1100 is the new gold standard for desktop, edge network, and IoT firewall applications with up to 1 Gbps throughput requirements. Consumer and business customers will quickly appreciate this product packs a serious punch with pfSense software, world-class price-performance, elegant packaging, and an unbeatable low price. Priced at $159, the SG-1100 provides a 500% pfSense firewall performance improvement relative to its highly popular predecessor, the SG-1000.

The SG-1100 represents the latest addition to the company’s popular Arm®-based desktop appliances - and is the first to leverage GlobalScale / Marvell’s ESPRESSObin, a high performance 64-bit, dual core, low power consumption networking computing platform. Janu(AUSTIN, TX) Netgate®, the leading provider of open-source security solutions, today announced the launch of the SG-1100 pfSense Security Gateway Appliance. PfSense Fundamentals and Advanced Application Navy deploys pfSense Plus software on the Netgate 1537 and AWS Cloud for network security and management.

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