Popular NAS server manufacturer QNAP has launched its first high-performance router for small and medium office environments. This equipment at the hardware level is quite advanced, but the most important thing is its internal software since it is SD-WAN, and we have hundreds of possibilities to make the most of the hardware of this new router. Do you want to know all the features and what the first router from the manufacturer QNAP is capable of?
Hardware features
This SD-WAN router from the manufacturer QNAP incorporates a Qualcomm IPQ8072A Hawkeye 2 processor, it has a total of four cores at a speed of 2.2GHz and with a 64-bit architecture, therefore, we are facing the top of the range CPU for this type of routers. As if this were not enough, we have 1GB of RAM with 4GB of internal memory to store the operating system and also all the records and settings.
Regarding wireless features, we have simultaneous dual band with AX3600 . In the 2.4GHz band we have a total of four internal antennas with 4.5dBi gain in MU-MIMO 4T4R configuration, therefore, we can achieve up to 1148Mbps. In the 5GHz band we have a total of four internal antennas with 5.2dBi gain in MU-MIMO 4T4R configuration, therefore, we can achieve a speed of up to 2.402Mbps, however, a very interesting aspect is that it will allow us to configure this frequency band in MU-MIMO 2T2R and use 160MHz of channel width . This last mode is ideal for mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets where we always have a maximum of 2 internal antennas. Thanks to the incorporation of the latest Wi-Fi 6 technology, we will have Beamforming, MU-MIMO, OFDMA and all the improvements incorporated in the new standard.
In terms of wired features, we have two 10GBASE-T Multigigabit ports and a total of four Gigabit Ethernet ports . Taking into account that we are facing SD-WAN, any of these ports can function as WAN or LAN, therefore, depending on our needs, we will have one or more WANs, and one or more LAN ports.
Finally, we have two USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports (at 5Gbps) to share files on the local network and the Internet, this will allow us a large number of additional possibilities to make the most of your hardware.
Software features
The highlight of this new QHora-301W router is its software. We are facing a router with SD-WAN, therefore, in addition to offering us complete connectivity, we will have the possibility of using remote multisite VPN servers / clients, in addition, we can create a meshed multisite VPN topology and routed by the best path, this will allow a highly efficient, flexible and scalable network for multiple sites. Thanks to QuWAN technology (QNAP SD-WAN technology), we will be able to create different paths between the different locations easily and quickly.
Other configurations that we can carry out are the possibility of creating a virtual access point with business security, configuring a total of 6 SSIDs configured in different VLANs to correctly segment the network. Other security options are that we will have a powerful SPI firewall, we will also have a deep packet inspection system and even an L7 firewall to guarantee the security of the IPsec VPN tunnels.
Thanks to QNAP software, we will be able to create a robust and scalable network, and all this without the need to enter the console, make complicated configurations or waste time due to incompatibility problems. By putting one of these QHora-301Ws in each seat, the setup is really simple.
We recommend you visit the official website of QNAP QHora-301W where you will find all the details of this equipment.