Public Sector Organization

Okapi is ideal to handle the network in a Public Sector organization having a vast network infrastructure. It supports any number of Ethernet LAN ports to allow LAN segmentation and enables connectivity speeds upto 100BASE-T Ethernet technology. Support for 802.1q VLAN is also available to have inter-VLAN routing. Keeping in mind the internet needs of these kinds of organizations where higher download speeds are required as compared to the upload speeds, the high-speed DSL broadband access is provided through an asymmetric DSL (ADSL) over basic telephone service.

The flexibility that Okapi introduces into the system helps businesses reduce costs by enabling deployment of a single device to provide multiple services. Okapi also provides various utilities for IP address management including static ip address assignment, DHCP server, DHCP client and DHCP relay which also imparts more flexibility and reliability to the system.

It also supports for ISDN PRI (E1/T1) for leased line connections which is designed to allow digital transmission of voice and data over ordinary telephone copper wires, resulting in potentially better voice quality than an analog phone can provide. It offers circuit-switched connections (for either voice or data), and packet-switched connections (for data), in increments of 64 kilobit/s. Support for ISDN Basic Rate S/T Interface (BRI) is also available for redundant WAN links and load balancing. Okapi supports to create DMZ for services like web servers, ftp servers, DNS servers etc that are to be provided to users in external network, with it's port forwarding feature.

It implements firewall at gateway using stateless and stateful packet filtering & NAT/PAT to have secured Internet access and to secure private network from external world. Time and user based policies can also be applied in order to exercise control over the access to the network resources. Features like per-user authentication and authorization aid to greater security. it also fights spam using a powerful ISP-grade spam-filter.