NetPilot Remote Key Features

VPN Connectivity

NetPilot Remote with its accredited Virtual Private Network (VPN) functionality, uses standard IPSec protocols with 3DES encryption, to form part of an Internet based VPN.

Secure VPN tunnels across the Internet can interconnect NetPilots at differing office locations.

In addition, roving sales or support personnel or homeoffice users, can dial into their nearest POP and connect to their central office for the price of a local call. NetPilot Remote can work in conjunction with SafeNet VPN or OpenVPN PC clients for just these applications.

Firewall and Security

NetPilot Remote offers a complete security and control package that is powerful, yet easy to administer. Facilities include not only powerful accredited firewalling, but also user access control, web access control, web filters and time-based connectivity control.

NetPilot Remote's firewall has undergone rigorous independent testing and has been awarded Checkmark accreditation.

Controlled High Speed Web Access

NetPilot Remote enables multi-user Internet access through a range of high-speed communications options. It has powerful, yet flexible control facilities to administer local access of external resources, including user restrictions, web access control, web filters and time controls. Some groups or individuals may have rights assigned to use only email, or just web browsing. Which web sites are accessed by which users can be controlled - ranging from a very restricted set of web addresses with no general browsing capability, to fairly widespread rights, with perhaps the exception of pornographic sites.

Total Email Solution

NetPilot Remote can act as a company-wide internal and external email server. For maximum cost-savings on call charges, external email for the whole company can be delivered and retrieved at predetermined intervals. Users no longer have to wait to make their calls with a modem, but can pick up email messages direct from their PC when it's convenient - even the next day if they are out of the office.

Virtual mail groups can be set up for different departments through aliasing facilities, which have the added advantage of catching addressing errors. Incoming and/or outgoing emails can be automatically copied or redirected.

For complete flexibility, NetPilot Remote can be set to act as a gateway to other interneal mail server such as Microsoft Exchange.

Web Page Caching

To save connection costs to the Internet and speed up user access, Equiinet has introduced caching. This allows popular web sites, pages or parts of pages to be stored locally in NetPilot Remote and to be viewed subsequently by other users without reconnecting to the Internet, unless the content has changed.

File and Print Serving

NetPilot Remote can also act as a file server for local LAN PC users with Microsoft Windows. To PC users this functionality simply appears as another drive. In addition, there is a parallel port for centralised print server functionality. The printer attached to NetPilot Remote is mapped to each local LAN PC and each PC can then independently spool print files into a NetPilot Remote -maintained print queue. Again, this removes the need for a dedicated print server or printer-sharing device.

Easy to Install

NetPilot Remote is very straightforward to install and extremely easy to use. The network administrator is provided with easily configurable connectors interfaces, which are accessed through a browser interface to NetPilot Remote.

Ongoing Management

NetPilot Remote monitors and reports on a range of activities including online time, the number of incoming and outgoing emails by user, web usage by time of day and firewall rejects. These reports can be automatically collated and sent as a daily email to a system supervisor.

Upgrades and Support

Software updates can be automatically downloaded from the NetPilot upgrade service site. Support staff can check the operation of NetPilot Remote remotely and make online changes if necessary.

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