Netris SoftGate
While network switches provide network connectivity between compute hosts, servers, and storage devices, your private cloud network requires gateway services for connectivity with the Internet or other networks.
In legacy infrastructure environments, gateway services are provided using border routers + firewalls + load balancers + VPN gateways.
Modern open-source software accelerated with DPDK and SmartNIC technologies can provide the necessary gateway functionality for your private cloud.
Netris SoftGate is automatic configuration software and reference software architecture for enabling border routing, Layer-4 Load Balancing, Network Address Translation (NAT), and site-to-site VPN services utilizing a regular x86 server with a SmartNIC.
With Netris SoftGate, you don’t need to worry about integrating various network devices; you just use a couple of high-performance servers to achieve your network gateway services through immediate automatic configuration.
Netris SoftGate provides the following network services:
![Icons White No Red 2_Load Balancer Icons White No Red 2_Load Balancer](https://www.netris.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Icons-White-No-Red-2_Load-Balancer-100x100.png)
L4 Load Balancing
Server Load Balancing with health checks
![Icons White No Red 2_Firewall Icons White No Red 2_Firewall](https://www.netris.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Icons-White-No-Red-2_Firewall-100x100.png)
Stateless Firewall
Packet filtering with Access Control Lists (ACLs)
![Icons White No Red 2_NAT Icons White No Red 2_NAT](https://www.netris.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Icons-White-No-Red-2_NAT-100x100.png)
Network Address Translation
Private-to-Public IP address mapping
Netris SoftGate comes in two versions:
![Softgate_softgate pro copy 2](https://www.netris.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Softgate_softgate-pro-copy-2-1-300x33.png)
- Throughput: 10 Gbps
- Forwarding: Software
- Linux Server (Ubuntu 22.04)
- Management: GUI, API, k8s, Terraform
Minimum Requirements
- 4x vCPU or CPU
- 4GB RAM
- 100G DISK
- 2 Ethernet Ports
- Linux x64
![Softgate_softgate pro](https://www.netris.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Softgate_softgate-pro-1-300x33.png)
- Throughput: 100Gbps / 25Mpps
- Forwarding: DPDK & SmartNIC
- Linux Server (Ubuntu 22.04 / Intel Xeon CPU)
- Management: GUI, API, or k8s, Terraform
Minimum Requirements
- 2 x Intel Xeon CPU
- 128 GB RAM
- 300G DISK
- Nvidia Mellanox ConnectX-5/6 SmartNIC
- Linux x64