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Network Activity Archiving

LAD provides efficient and accurate archiving and retrieval of network traffic, enabling long-term storage of network data for security, investigative or compliance reasons. LAD's network activity archiving enables network admins and other users to obtain a deeper view into network patterns and trends because they can go back over a longer range of historical data, depending on the size of the hard drive used.

Accurate and complete network activity archiving is an essential element for retrospective analysis of network events and network data flows. LAD's accuracy and speed at capturing network activity and recording it gives unparalleled backwards visibility into network activity.

LAD may be used in various locations on the network, depending on the archiving goals. Placement at the point of contact with the public Internet records all flows in and out of the network, while placement between an email server archives all email server's communications, including the header and contents of all emails sent or received. Access to sensitive data servers may be monitored and archived by placing LAD between the data server and the rest of the network.

Other LAD Features

  • SIP server and VoIP PBX: Fully integrated VoIP calling via SIP protocol, with a number of practical call flow processing features.
  • Wi-Fi for 2.4Ghz, 5G and 6G: Full support of the latest Wi-Fi 6E for both 5G and 6G wi-fi networks plus the mainstay 2.4Ghz band lets you connect, protect and manage a wide range of Wi-Fi clients [read more].
  • Wireless Router: In addition to all its other features, LAD serves as a great wireless router, able to operate in all three bands, whether as a triband, dual-band or [read more].
  • Lateral Firewall: Thousands of sophisticated rules let you control specifically what is allowed and what is not allowed, down to as granular a level as you like, with device-specific, date-specific and time-specific variability [read more].
  • Date & Time Scheduling: Want your computer to disconnect at the end of the day, when you do? LAD's scheduling features let you cut off Internet access partially or fully on a schedule of your choosing [read more].
  • LateralDNS: Simplify and streamline the blocking of unwanted online content and services using domain names for consistent and reliable results [read more].
  • Packet Capture: LAD's packet capture feature lets you capture as much or as little of the Internet and network traffic as you like. This information comes in handy should a network incident require investigation [read more].
  • NAT: Network address translation obscures private/internal IP addresses from the public internet, so that only the Internet-facing IP address is used for communications leaving the private/internal network.
  • DNS: LAD's DNS services monitor and control domain name resolution with no intermediaries, making you impervious to DNS-based exploits and vulnerabilities [read more].
  • Switching & Routing: LAD provides switching and routing services, meaning you can plug all of your devices directly into your LAD without an intervening switch or router.
  • Local Access Control: Locally you can limit which devices on the network can talk to each other and with the Internet, as well as specify the types of communications allowed [read more].
  • Automatic Activity Report: LAD generates reports every eight hours, giving you an overview of your network traffic, plus individual graphs on bandwidth usage for each device on your network.
  • LateralTime: Use LAD's LateralTime feature to sychronize the devices on your network to the same time.
  • Network Management & Monitoring: LAD provides a number of tools for network management and troubleshooting, including ping monitors, Wi-Fi monitoring, LAN and WAN activity monitoring, new device detection and individual client management.

 

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