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Easy, Secure and Clientless Remote Access for the Enterprise
With maturing mobile technologies, booming global markets and heightened focus on disaster
preparedness, remote access control has become a business imperative. IT is now mandated with
providing secure remote access that is easy for users and cost-eff ective to implement. Client-based
VPNs can be cumbersome to use and manage. SonicWALL® Aventail® E-Class Secure Remote Access
(SRA) solutions deliver a complete remote access control solution, without escalating infrastructure
costs or complexity. SonicWALL Aventail E-Class SRA provides complete application access with full
security, control of the endpoint and unifi ed policy management. This easy-to-use, easy-to-control
solution increases productivity by providing employees and extranet business partners with secure,
clientless access to the resources they need from any device, anywhere, with the unmatched security
of SSL VPN.
This solution is a part of SonicWALL’s new E-Class—a line of premium, enterprise-class solutions
off ering outstanding protection and performance while delivering elegant simplicity and unparalleled
value. The E-Class portfolio of products and services includes a comprehensive line of network
security, e-mail security and secure remote access solutions.
Features and Benefi ts
Increases productivity. SonicWALL Aventail E-Class
SRA works in more places, including home PCs, kiosks,
PDAs and unmanaged devices over wired and wireless
networks. SonicWALL Aventail SRA makes your users
more productive by providing easy access to more
applications from more environments—including
Windows®, Linux®, Macintosh® and mobile devices—
than any other secure access solution.
Lowers IT overhead and total cost of ownership.
SonicWALL Aventail E-Class SRA lowers IT costs by
enabling network managers to easily deploy and
manage a single secure access gateway that extends
remote access via SSL VPN for both internal and
external users to all network resources—including
Web-based, client/server and host-based applications.
SonicWALL Aventail SRAs are clientless or use
lightweight Web-delivered clients, reducing
management overhead and support calls.
Easy-to-use from any endpoint. SonicWALL Aventail
E-Class SRA technology provides transparent access to
network resources from any network environment or
device. A SonicWALL Aventail SSL VPN provides a single
gateway for all access and a common user experience
across all platforms—including Windows, Windows
Vista, Windows Mobile, Linux and Macintosh—from
managed or unmanaged devices. An award-winning
anti-spam engine coupled with end-to-end attack
monitoring ensures the most eff ective and current
protection from spam attacks.
Robust mobile solution. SonicWALL Aventail E-Class
SRA provides the most robust secure access solutions
for mobile PDAs and smartphones, featuring Session
Persistence across offi ce, home or mobile IP addresses
without re-authentication.
Access to all application platforms. SonicWALL
Aventail Smart Tunneling™ delivers fast and easy access
to all applications—whether they are Web-based, client/
server, server-based or host-based—over a unique
architecture that combines the application layer control
of SSL with the reach of a Layer 3 tunnel.
Supports VoIP and remote help desk. SonicWALL
Aventail Smart Tunneling™ provides granular, bidirectional
access control for back-connect applications like VoIP
and remote help desk.
Eliminates routing confl icts. Adaptive addressing
and routing dynamically adapts to networks, eliminating
addressing and routing confl icts common with other
solutions.
Single access gateway. SonicWALL Aventail E-Class
SRA gives network managers a single secure access
gateway for all users, internal and external, to all resources
with complete control. Administrators have even
greater control over portal access, content and design
with the newly-enhanced SonicWALL WorkPlace Portal.
Rapid set-up and deployment. All SonicWALL
Aventail E-Class SRAs are easily set-up and deployed in
just minutes. The redesigned SonicWALL Aventail’s Set-
up Wizard provides an easy, intutitive “out- of-the-box”
experience with rapid set-up and deployment. Improved
management workfl ow makes it much easier to
understand and manage policy objects.
Easy-to-control with Unifi ed Policy Management.
SonicWALL Aventail Unifi ed Policy™ off ers easy object-
based policy management of all users, groups,
resources and devices, while enforcing granular control
based on both user authentication and end point
interrogation. Policy Zones can ensure unauthorized
access is denied, or quarantined for remediation.
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Increases productivity and
return on investment
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Lowers IT overhead and
total cost of ownership
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Easy-to-use from any
endpoint
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Robust mobile solution
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Access to all application
platforms
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Supports VoIP and remote
help desk
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Eliminates routing confl icts
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Single access gateway
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Rapid set-up and
deployment
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Easy-to-control with
Unifi ed Policy Management
SonicWALL E-Class Secure Remote Access for the Enterprise
SECURE REMOTE ACCESS
PROTECTION AT THE SPEED OF BUSINESS™