While in communication between Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) we need to use a point of entry or exit to networks, and this point we called as “Gateway”. The Gateway is basically controls access to another computers or networks to increase privacy and miss-use network resources. The design of the gateway underlying the International Organization for Standardization - Open Systems Interconnection (ISO - OSI) reference model (7 Layers) for different type of communication network.
In current situation, to implement well managed Information and Communication Technology (ICT) gateway platform, we need to bundle different types of hardware and software solutions with paying separate licensing and subscription charges. Implementation of these types of solutions is very costly, complicated and required supports of IT professionals due to the difficulty of configure, administrate, troubleshoot and monitor the network.
With innermost intentions of avoiding number of disadvantages that the organization faces with incomplete ICT solutions in the present situation, we have been proposed to develop a complete gateway level solution which will highly collaborate to perform all related activities to a highly standard level when compared to complicated and costly gateway solutions available. Even though many general gateways of this nature are currently present in the market we have been unsuccessful in finding a commercial gateway that would make any reliable, comprehensive. Thus we would like to develop a gateway that can be used to overcome above drawbacks.
Our unique, comprehensive solution we address as Universal Service Gateway (USG). We are intending to develop a single product which include hardware and software, will be based on the most advance techniques in information technology. This unit bundle with more features to provide well manage IT platform considering low cost and easy maintenance with zero configuration environment for the end users. We hope this will be benefits for Schools, Institute, Hotels and any type of middle-scale organization to manage their location based network services productively.
A complete study and analysis of the existing products will be done before designing and developing a universal service gateway, to overcome above summarized major drawbacks.
We decide to build single platform to overcome the above issues.
This new product is Universal Service Gateway (USG) ©.
It Include following customizable main key features:
> Manage and billing network user accounts (Permanent and Guest/Visitor Base)
> Authentication facility with internal or external (Active Directory, Radius and LDAP Integration)
> Routing and network address translation (NAT) feature
> Allocate bandwidth according to the user and group categorization.
> Firewall and Creating Access Control List (ACL) to manage inbound and outbound network traffics [3].
> Contain and URL filtering to avoid accessing unwanted and pornographic web sites
> MAC address and Internet Protocol (IP) address filtering
> File blocking and SPAM filtering to avoid use of bandwidth unnecessarily
> Wall garden and White listening to increase performance of use.
> VPN pass through to Secured VPN access
> Facilitate zero level configuration to users and support unlimited concurrent users
> Support both wired and wireless network, any type of Operating System (OS) or any web browser.
> Easy configuration, management with administrative Graphical User Interface (GUI)
> Monitoring, logs and reporting facility of the network, etc…
Product Team Members:
Saranga Panapitiya
