Getting started with IBM Cloud Gateway Appliance

IBM Cloud Gateway Appliances are devices that give you enhanced control over network traffic, accelerate your network’s performance, and improve your network security. You can manage your physical and virtual networks for routing multiple VLANs, for firewalls, VPN, traffic shaping, and more.

Before you begin

To get started, first determine which gateway appliance is right for you. The following table provides a comparison between the appliance options.

A comparison of IBM's gateway appliance offerings
This table lists all of IBM's gateway appliance offerings, and provides links to their documentation.

	Virtual Router Appliance	Juniper vSRX	Bring your own Appliance	Virtual FortiGate Security Appliance
Operating System	Vyatta OS	Juniper vSRX	Any	FortiOS
IBM Cloud Support			Limited
Single Tenant Appliance
VLAN Protection
Multi-VLAN Support
NAT Support			Appliance dependent
HA Option
Manage from API & Portal	Appliance GUI	Appliance GUI		Appliance GUI
10Gbps Support
NGFW Add-ons (IPS, AV, WF)			Appliance dependent
Remote Access VPN