Feature SetsHardware
Appliances		 Software Appliances
General 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
Open Source License (GPL)
Free download N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Suggested
number of
users (not
limited)		 N/A <25 <100 <250 250+ 5-10 25+
Commercial
support options
Ticket System Support
Direct support
from Endian
Phone Support
Live/Remote
Support
(hands on)
Instant
Hardware Replacement
Industrial
Grade Hardware		 N/A N/A
LCD display
with system
status and management functionality		 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Network Security 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
Stateful Packet Firewall
Demilitarized
Zone (DMZ)
Intrusion
Detection (Snort)
Multiple Public
IPs
Traffic Shaping
VoIP/SIP
support
Portscan
Detection
DoS and
DDoS Protection
SYN/ICMP
Flood Protection
Anti-Spoofing Protection
VLAN support
(IEEE 802.1Q
trunking) - New
DNS Proxy /
Routing - New
Web Security 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
HTTP & FTP
proxies		 N/A
Anti-virus
(100.000+
patterns)		 N/A
Transparent
Proxy support		 N/A
Content Analysis
/ Filtering		 N/A
URL Blacklist N/A
Authentication: Local, RADIUS,
LDAP, Active
Directory		 N/A
NTLM Single
Sign-On		 N/A
Group based
web access
policies - New		 N/A
Time based
access control
with multiple
time intervals
- New		 N/A
Mail Security 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
SMTP & POP3 proxies N/A
Anti-spam with
Bayes, Pattern,
SPF,		 N/A
Heuristics, Black- and White-lists support N/A
Anti-virus
(100.000+
patterns)		 N/A
Transparent
Proxy support		 N/A
Spam
Auto-Learning		 N/A
Transparent
Mail Forwarding
(BCC)		 N/A
Greylisting N/A
Virtual Private
Networks (VPN)
 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
True SSL/TLS
VPN (OpenVPN)
IPSEC
Encryption;
DES, 3DES,
AES 128-,192-,
256-bit
Authentication:
Pre-Shared Key,
Certification
Authority, Local
Support for VPN
over HTTPS
Proxy
(OpenVPN)
- New
X.509 and 2
factor based authentication
- New
PPTP Passthrough
Pushing of DNS
settings and
Routes to clients
(OpenVPN) - New
Automatic connection
failover (OpenVPN) - New
Native VPN Client
for MS Windows,
MacOSX and Linux
Hotspot 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
Captive Portal N/A N/A
Wired/Wireless
support		 N/A N/A
Pre-/Post-paid and
free Tickets		 N/A N/A
Integrated RADIUS
service		 N/A N/A
Connection Logging N/A N/A
No additional software
/ hardware required		 N/A N/A
Per-user and global bandwidth
limiting - New		 N/A N/A
MAC-address based
user accounts - New		 N/A N/A
User accounts import/export per
CSV - New		 N/A N/A
Single-click ticket generation (Quick
ticket) - New		 N/A N/A
Automatic client
network
configuration
(support for DHCP
and static IP)
- New		 N/A N/A
Generic JSON-API
for external
accounting and
third party
integration - New		 N/A N/A
High Availability 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
Hot Standby (active/passive) - New N/A N/A
Node Data /
Configuration - New		 N/A N/A
Synchronization - New N/A N/A
Multi-WAN with Failover 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
Support for
multiple Uplinks
/ WANs - New
Automatic WAN
Uplink Failover
- New
Monitoring of
WAN Uplinks
- New
Uplink types:
Ethernet
(Static/DHCP),
PPPoE, ADSL,
ISDN, PPTP
UMTS/GPRS/3G
support - New
Routing 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
Static Routes
Source-based
Routing
Destination-based
Routing
Policy-based
Routing (based
on interface,
mac, protocol or
port) - New		 N/A
Network Address Translation (NAT) 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
Static NAT (Port Translation)
One-to-One NAT
Source NAT (SNAT)
- New
IPSec NAT Traversal
Logging/Reporting 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
Live Log Viewer
(AJAX based)
- New
Detailed User Based
Web Access Report		 N/A
Network / System
/ Performance
Statistics
Rule-based
logging settings (Firewall Rules)
- New		 N/A
Syslog: Local or Remote
Management 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
Easy Web-based Administration
(SSL)
Secure Remote SSH/SCP Access
Serial Console
Centralized Management
through Endian
Network (SSL)
Updates and Backup 4i Office / Industrial Mini Mercury Macro Macro X2 5-10 Users 25+ Users
Backup/Restore
Firewall settings
from Web-Interface
Centralized
Updates through
Endian Network
Anti-virus
Definitions		 N/A
URL Blacklist Definitions N/A
Scheduled
Automatic
Backup
Encrypted Backups
via E-mail - New
Instant Recovery
/Backup to
USB-Stick - New

= Yes, = Optional, N/A = Not available