

At the same time, they ideally also have to be inexpensive and thus affordable for SMBs. The ongoing trend towards IoT sees the need emerging for new security appliances, which can cope with GbE bandwidth and are robust. Plus, nearly all the products are designed for the IT sector and not for industrial deployment. Numerous GbE router and firewall products are available on the market, but these address large companies – and are complex and high cost – or, if not, they lack individually configurable functions. Although, whichever high-bandwidth applications are to be run based on these networked platforms, the increasing bandwidth calls for flexible firewalls appliances with extended security and monitoring features for all central and especially decentralised and small installations, as found at SMBs or with IoT Edge devices.
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Both companies’ own and public cloud solutions are being deployed for Software as a Service (SaaS) and Internet of Things (IoT) or Industry 4.0 applications. In the corporate sector, new applications are being driven by the growing need for fast, direct access to company data and processes at any given time and from any given place.

The result: performance levels are balancing out between internal and internet connections which are making way for completely new applications. Today, however, providers are offering much higher bandwidths at much lower rates.

Up until recently, internet connections were significantly slower than companies’ internal networks.
