
Protect Your Assets
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Make the Network a Safe Place Again
nTopNG Edge keeps your Internet available for business-critical applications by preventing misbehaving hosts from hogging bandwidth. It also protects your network against unwanted traffic, like torrents and cloud uploads, that could lead to data breaches.
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Ensured Internet Availability
nTopNG Edge enables network administrators to manage complex networks efficiently by accurately controlling and prioritizing Internet access for connected devices. Its intuitive web-based interface allows administrators to quickly allocate and regulate available bandwidth, easily enforcing maximum upload and download limits for individual devices in just a few clicks.
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Layer-7 Applications Traffic Blocking/Throttling
Protecting networks from unwanted application traffic is challenging, especially with internal policies and external regulations limiting access. Are you frustrated by employees using cloud services, downloading copyrighted content, or wasting work hours on recreational sites? nTopNG Edge enforces policies to block or throttle Layer-7 traffic without costly network changes or equipment conflicts.
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Inline Unsafe Traffic Blocking
nTopNG Edge combines safe DNS with comprehensive IP and domain lists to deliver continuous network protection. It automatically detects and blocks communication attempts involving malicious hosts—whether incoming or outgoing—and generates immediate alerts. For real-time threat notifications, simply integrate Slack to receive instant updates directly on your smartphone.
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Service Micro-Segmentation
With service micro-segmentation, administrators create policies that explicitly permit only authorized network traffic. Security policies are tailored individually for each host, based on its specific role and function. Using this zero-trust security model, nTopNG Edge enables precise enforcement—for instance, restricting IoT sensors exclusively to MQTT communication, or ensuring web servers only use HTTP/HTTPS with clients and MySQL with backend databases.
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Active and Silent Devices Discovery
nTopNG Edge automatically discovers and accurately categorizes all devices connected to the network, including silent ones. It provides detailed device information such as type, family, and—when possible—specific model and operating system. Additionally, nTopNG Edge continuously monitors for newly connected devices, promptly alerting administrators whenever unknown devices join the network.
Available Versions
Feature | Professional | Enterprise | ||
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Ensured Internet Availability Enforce the maximum download/upload bandwidth Guarantee the minimum download/upload bandwidth |
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Layer-7 Applications Traffic Blocking/Throttling Enforce policies on the basis of Layer-7 applications traffic Define per-user and per-Layer-7 application time and traffic quotas |
✔ | ✔ | ||
Inline Unsafe Traffic Blocking Industry’s leading cyber-security companies IP and domains lists Enable the use of Child-Safe DNS Secure DNS to block malicious domains |
✔ | ✔ | ||
Captive Portal Identify and associate users with physical devices through a login page Grant Internet access only to authorized users |
✔ | ✔ | ||
Bridge Mode Create a bridge between two network interfaces, one connected to a LAN and the other to a WAN |
✔ | ✔ | ||
Router Mode Route the traffic coming from an interface connected to a LAN towards one or more WAN interfaces Define routing policies to be applied on a per-user basis (e.g., premium users via SAT and basic users via WiFi) |
✘ | ✔ | ||
Failover Constantly monitor Internet reachability and automatically exclude gateways that can no longer access the Internet |
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Load Balancing Balance the traffic to spread the traffic going to the Internet across multiple gateways |
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Use Cases
SMEs
SMEs often struggle to protect their networks from unwanted Layer-7 application protocols. Internal rules or external regulations may impose limits on the websites visited as well as on the Layer-7 application protocols used in the network. nTopNG Edge helps SMEs by restricting the use of unauthorized/unwanted traffic, including that towards recreational sites and social networks.
Internet Access Providers
Hotels, bars and restaurants, malls, and more in general public places, almost always provide complimentary or paid internet access. nEdge helps in protecting business-critical operations by automatically identifying normal guests and staff people and devices, and prioritizing their traffic according to different policies.
Multi-WAN Providers
nEdge features advanced functionalities specifically designed for multi-homed Internet access providers, characterized by the presence of a number of Internet gateways with different speeds and costs (e.g. WiFi, 3G, SAT). Powerful policies can be implemented to route the traffic towards one or more gateway on the basis of the user type (e.g., premium vs basic).
License
Licensee’s use of this software is conditioned upon acceptance of the terms specified by ntop.
Operating Systems
Ubuntu Linux 20 LTS Only