Versa CSG350

Resiliency and Manageability Advantage

The CSG300 series appliances are designed for resiliency and durability to ensure business continuity and services. The appliances come with secure BIOS and securing booting capabilities. The CSG300 series appliances have specially designed LEDs that are unique and intuitive to instantly provide device and interface status for ease of manageability.

Security Advantage

The platform hardware has been designed with security use-cases in mind. A TPM chip integrated into the appliance ensures the integrity and security of critical data, such as encryption and authentication keys.

LTE Advantage

Cat-6 class 4G/LTE-Advanced support is ubiquitous across all models and can be used as a primary or backup WAN access link for the branch and remote sites. Enterprise customers can deploy CSG300 series appliances with up to four independent LTE-A links simultaneously, providing unmatched resiliency and flexibility for wireless WAN access from the branch.

Each appliance can be ordered with up to two factory-installed, enterprise grade, internal CAT-6 LTE Advanced (LTE-A) modems to provide simultaneous connectivity (Active/Active) to two active LTE access links. Each LTE modem provides performance up to 300 Mbps downstream and up to 50 Mbps upstream.

The embedded LTE-A modules are firmware controlled, allowing for maximum carrier flexibility and independence. The appliance has two externally accessible SIM card slots, one for each embedded LTE-A modem. If the appliance is configured with two LTE-A modems, each SIM card is used to control one LTE radio each. The appliance also has one USB slots that can be connected to an LTE dongle if desired. With two internal modems and one USB attached modem, customers can deploy up to three simultaneous LTE WAN connections.

Wi-Fi Advantage

Each CSG300 series appliance can be ordered with a factory-installed 802.11ac (Wave2) high-performance dual-radio access point module to deliver enterprise-grade WLAN connectivity to the branch. The Wi-Fi AP module is an 802.11 a/b/g/n/an/ac (Wave2) access point that can support up to 8 SSIDs and 255 wireless clients concurrently (total 16 SSIDs). The embedded Wi-Fi AP module supports 2.4-GHz and 5-GHz frequency bands simultaneously (Dual Band, Dual Concurrent Access). The module supports 2x2 MU-MIMO with beamforming capabilities and is suitable for small-to-medium-office deployments. The WLAN AP module also supports Mesh Wi-Fi and frequency-band steering capabilities and has the sufficient transmission power and MRC capabilities to process weak wireless signals from distant client devices, thus providing the best possible user experience.

NIC options

The 4-port PoE+ Network Interface Card (NIC) optional module can provide up to a total of 60 Watts of power to four connected devices, delivering 15.4 Watts (802.3af) or 30 Watts (802.3at) of power to each device. Note, a second PSU (power supply unit) is required for the CSG300 series appliances to provide the additional power needed to distribute power for operating the PoE ports. APs, cameras, VoIP phones, and other PoE-capable devices can be powered without using AC adapters by leveraging the POE ports on the appliance.

CSG355 and CSG365 platforms also support additional NIC options such as ADSL/VDSL NIC and T1/E1 NIC.