Alternatives to Azure Route Server
Compare Azure Route Server alternatives for your business or organization using the curated list below. SourceForge ranks the best alternatives to Azure Route Server in 2026. Compare features, ratings, user reviews, pricing, and more from Azure Route Server competitors and alternatives in order to make an informed decision for your business.
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Azure Virtual Network
Microsoft
Azure Virtual Network gives you an isolated and highly-secure environment to run your virtual machines and applications. Use your private IP addresses and define subnets, access control policies, and more. Use Virtual Network to treat Azure the same as you would your own datacenter. Traffic between Azure resources in a single region, or in multiple regions, stays in the Azure network—intra-Azure traffic doesn’t flow over the Internet. In Azure, traffic for virtual machine-to-virtual machine, storage, and SQL communication only traverses the Azure network, regardless of the source and destination Azure region. Inter-region virtual network-to-virtual network traffic also flows entirely across the Azure network. Use Virtual Network to extend your on-premises IT environment into the cloud, like you set up and connect to a remote branch office. You have options to securely connect to a virtual network—choose an IPsec VPN or a private connection by using Azure ExpressRoute.Starting Price: $0.01 per GB -
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Azure ExpressRoute
Microsoft
Use Azure ExpressRoute to create private connections between Azure datacenters and infrastructure on your premises or in a colocation environment. ExpressRoute connections don't go over the public internet, and they offer more reliability, faster speeds, and lower latencies than typical internet connections. In some cases, using ExpressRoute connections to transfer data between on-premises systems and Azure can give you significant cost benefits. Use ExpressRoute to both connect and add compute and storage capacity to your existing datacenters. With high throughput and fast latencies, Azure will feel like a natural extension to or between your datacenters, so you enjoy the scale and economics of the public cloud without having to compromise on network performance.Starting Price: $55 per month -
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Azure Private Link
Microsoft
Azure Private Link provides private connectivity from a virtual network to Azure platform as a service (PaaS), customer-owned, or Microsoft partner services. It simplifies the network architecture and secures the connection between endpoints in Azure by eliminating data exposure to the public internet. Private connectivity to services on Azure—traffic remains on the Microsoft network, with no public internet access. Use Private Link to bring services delivered on Azure into your private virtual network by mapping it to a private endpoint. Or privately deliver your own services in your customers’ virtual networks. All traffic to the service can be routed through the private endpoint, so no gateways, NAT devices, ExpressRoute or VPN connections, or public IP addresses are needed. Private Link keeps traffic on the Microsoft global network.Starting Price: $0.01 per hour -
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Azure Virtual WAN
Microsoft
Azure Virtual WAN is a networking service that brings many networking, security, and routing functionalities together to provide a single operational interface. These functionalities include branch connectivity (via connectivity automation from Virtual WAN Partner devices such as SD-WAN or VPN CPE), Site-to-site VPN connectivity, remote user VPN (Point-to-site) connectivity, private (ExpressRoute) connectivity, intra-cloud connectivity (transitive connectivity for virtual networks), VPN ExpressRoute inter-connectivity, routing, Azure Firewall, and encryption for private connectivity. -
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Azure Network Function Manager
Microsoft
Azure Network Function Manager offers a consistent management experience for pre-validated mobile network functions to enable a private LTE/5G solution. The service also enables a seamless cloud-to-edge experience for Azure Marketplace network functions such as SD-WAN. Run on-premises, secure private 5G/LTE mobile networks that you can rapidly deploy from your choice of mobile packet core network function partner in the Azure portal. These networks provide ultra-low latency to enable real-time edge applications for use cases like augmented reality, virtual reality, and industrial robotics. Easily deploy and manage SD-WAN, VPN solutions at the edge from a rich ecosystem of partners. For a true hybrid experience, use Azure Marketplace to choose from a pre-validated list of marketplace network functions just like the network functions you use for Azure and Azure Virtual WAN, to help ensure proper operation with Azure Stack Edge.Starting Price: Free -
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Azure Firewall Manager
Microsoft
Central network security policy and route management for globally distributed, software-defined perimeters. Centralized configuration and management of multiple Azure Firewall instances, across Azure regions and subscriptions. Manage security policy configuration and logging across multiple Azure Firewall instances. Centralize Azure Firewall management across secured virtual hubs and hub virtual network deployments. Automate traffic routing for security filtering in secured virtual hubs. Integrate with third-party SECaaS partners for advanced protection. Use Firewall policy to secure one or more virtual hubs or Virtual Networks. Respond to threats rapidly using the Firewall Policy hierarchy. Use Secure Virtual Hub to easily attract branch and spoke VNET traffic to the Azure Firewall. Enforce zero trust with few clicks. Use Azure Firewall for local traffic and SECaaS provider for internet traffic filtering.Starting Price: $100 per policy per region -
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AWS Transit Gateway
Amazon
AWS Transit Gateway is a fully managed service that connects Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and on-premises networks through a central hub, simplifying network architecture and eliminating complex peering relationships. Acting as a scalable cloud router, it allows each new connection to be made only once. Transit Gateway supports dynamic and static layer 3 routing between VPCs and VPNs, with routes determining the next hop based on the destination IP address. It enables VPN connections between the Transit Gateway and on-premises gateways, supporting Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP) routing to increase bandwidth by load-balancing traffic over multiple paths. AWS Transit Gateway Connect facilitates native integration of Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) appliances into AWS using standard protocols like GRE and BGP, enhancing bandwidth and supporting dynamic routing.Starting Price: $0.1 per hour -
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Azure Traffic Manager
Microsoft
Azure Traffic Manager operates at the DNS layer to quickly and efficiently direct incoming DNS requests based on the routing method of your choice. An example would be sending requests to the closest endpoints, improving the responsiveness of your applications. Azure Traffic Manager offers six types of DNS-based traffic routing: Priority, performance, geographic, weighted round-robin, subnet, and multi-value. Choose the one that’s right for you or combine, using nested profiles. Traffic Manager can improve the availability of important applications by monitoring your Azure services, or external websites and services, automatically directing users to the next best location when there’s a failure. Traffic Manager makes your applications more responsive and improves content delivery times by directing your customers to Azure end points or an external location with the lowest network latency. -
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Check Point Virtual Systems
Check Point
Check Point Virtual Systems harness virtualization to consolidate and simplify security for private clouds, delivering a lower total cost of ownership. It enables the creation of multiple virtualized security gateways on a single hardware device, allowing organizations to tailor security policies for each virtual system. This customization facilitates the breakdown of large, complex network security policies into more manageable segments, enhancing security practices to meet demanding business needs. Virtual Systems are ideal for large-scale environments such as enterprises, data centers, and Managed Service Providers (MSPs). In MSP settings, they consolidate hardware and ensure end-user privacy by separating applications and services across discrete virtual systems. It supports deployment in layer-2 bridge mode alongside layer-3 Virtual Systems on the same gateway, enabling transparent integration into existing network topologies without reconfiguring IP routing schemes. -
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Azure Application Gateway
Microsoft
Protect your applications from common web vulnerabilities such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting. Monitor your web applications using custom rules and rule groups to suit your requirements and eliminate false positives. Get application-level load-balancing services and routing to build a scalable and highly available web front end in Azure. Autoscaling offers elasticity by automatically scaling Application Gateway instances based on your web application traffic load. Application Gateway is integrated with several Azure services. Azure Traffic Manager supports multiple-region redirection, automatic failover, and zero-downtime maintenance. Use Azure Virtual Machines, virtual machine scale sets, or the Web Apps feature of Azure App Service in your back-end pools. Azure Monitor and Azure Security Center provide centralized monitoring and alerting, and an application health dashboard. Key Vault offers central management and automatic renewal of SSL certificates.Starting Price: $18.25 per month -
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Azure VPN Gateway
Microsoft
Azure VPN Gateway connects your on-premises networks to Azure through Site-to-Site VPNs in a similar way that you set up and connect to a remote branch office. The connectivity is secure and uses the industry-standard protocols Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) and Internet Key Exchange (IKE). Point-to-Site VPN lets you connect to your virtual machines on Azure virtual networks from anywhere, whether you are on the road, working from your favorite café, managing your deployment, or doing a demo for your customers. -
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JRR200 Route Reflector Appliance
Juniper Networks
The JRR200 Route Reflector Appliance provides an ideal solution for service providers, data centers, and enterprise networks that require large routing tables. It delivers 10-GbE connectivity in a compact form factor optimized for space- and power-constrained environments. You can simplify your network and reduce operating costs for a broad range of use cases, including cloud services and distributed metro and data center networks. The JRR200 appliance features the Junos OS control plane for feature-rich BGP control. You don’t have to choose between customized servers and hypervisor software or maintain separate hardware and software support. With support for Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP), the JRR200 also makes provisioning new deployments quicker and simpler. Get carrier-grade reliability for every application. Simplify network topologies and operations dramatically with local 1GbE wire speed. -
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Azure NAT Gateway
Microsoft
NAT Gateway is a fully managed service that securely routes internet traffic from a private virtual network with enterprise-grade performance and low latency. With built-in high availability using software-defined networking, you can easily configure, scale, and deploy outbound connectivity for dynamic workloads with NAT Gateway. Start securely connecting outbound to the internet with enterprise-grade performance and low latency by deploying a NAT (network address translation) gateway resource. With just a few clicks of a button, assign your NAT gateway to subnets within a single virtual network and static public IP addresses. NAT Gateway assumes the default route to the internet once configured to a subnet, with no traffic routing configurations required.Starting Price: $0.045 per hour -
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Azure Service Bus
Microsoft
Depend on Service Bus when you need highly reliable cloud messaging service between applications and services even when they’re offline. Available in every Azure region, this fully managed service eliminates the burdens of server management and licensing. Get more flexibility when brokering messaging between client and server with asynchronous operations along with structured first-in, first-out (FIFO) messaging and publish/subscribe capabilities. Leverage the power of asynchronous messaging patterns to reliably scale your enterprise applications. Integrate cloud resources such as Azure SQL Database, Azure Storage, and Web Apps with Service Bus messaging to get smooth operation under variable loads and the durability to survive intermittent failures. Improve availability by building messaging topologies with complex routing. Use Service Bus to deliver messages to multiple subscribers and fan out message delivery at scale to downstream systems.Starting Price: $0.05 per million operations -
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Azure Virtual Network Manager
Microsoft
Significantly reduce your operational overhead with Azure Virtual Network Manager, a central management service for your virtual network resources. Easily manage your virtual network infrastructure while scaling your cloud-based workloads. Use the centralized solution to create and manage complex network topologies and network security rules globally across subscriptions. Apply security and connectivity configurations for all your virtual networks across regions and subscriptions. Manage the configurations for your entire environment from a single pane of glass. Create complex virtual network topologies such as hub and spoke and mesh in just a few clicks. Azure Virtual Network Manager automatically responds to the changes you've made and maintains the virtual network topology.Starting Price: $0.10 per hour -
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Microsoft MCP Gateway
Microsoft
Microsoft MCP Gateway is an open source reverse proxy and management layer for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that enables scalable, session-aware routing, lifecycle management, and centralized control of MCP services, especially in Kubernetes environments. It functions as a control plane that routes AI agent (MCP client) requests to the appropriate backend MCP servers with session affinity, dynamically handling multiple tools and endpoints under one unified gateway while ensuring authorization and observability. It lets teams deploy, update, and delete MCP servers and tools via RESTful APIs, register tool definitions, and manage these resources with access control layers such as bearer tokens and RBAC. Its architecture separates control plane management (CRUD operations on adapters/tools and metadata) from data plane routing (streamable HTTP connections and dynamic tool routing), offering features like session-aware stateful routing.Starting Price: Free -
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Juniper vMX Series
Juniper Networks
The vMX Series provides sophisticated routing capabilities for business and broadband services, including route reflection and customer premises equipment (CPE) applications. The carrier-grade platform also supports a variety of optional virtualized services, significantly expanding its application range. The vMX runs the Junos operating system and compiles the programmable Trio chipset microcode for x86 chipsets—just like a physical edge router. It is available as licensed software for x86-based servers on AWS and AWS GovCloud (U.S.), as well as Microsoft Azure. With its flexible deployment models and licensing options (granular, perpetual, or subscription-based), you can start small, move fast, and stay profitable. -
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Check Point Harmony Connect
Check Point Software Technologies
Connecting branches directly to the cloud significantly increases security risks. Branches need branch cloud security to protect themselves against sophisticated Gen V cyber attacks. Check Point Harmony Connect transforms branch cloud security by delivering enterprise grade security to branches as a cloud service, with top-rated threat prevention, quick and easy deployment, and unified management saving up to 40% in OpEx. Transforms Branch Cloud Security with Top-Rated Threat Prevention, Easy Deployment, and a Unified Threat Management platform to reduce operational expenses up to 40%. Harmony Connect, a Trusted Security Partner in Azure Firewall Manager, protects globally distributed branch office locations or virtual networks with advanced threat prevention. With a simple configuration in Azure Firewall Manager, you can route branch hub and virtual network connections to the Internet through Harmony Connect. -
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AWS PrivateLink
Amazon Web Services
AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and your on-premises networks, without exposing your traffic to the public internet. AWS PrivateLink makes it easy to connect services across different accounts and VPCs to significantly simplify your network architecture. Interface VPC endpoints, powered by AWS PrivateLink, connect you to services hosted by AWS Partners and supported solutions available in AWS Marketplace. By powering Gateway Load Balancer endpoints, AWS PrivateLink brings the same level of security and performance to your virtual network appliances or custom traffic inspection logic. You can connect services across different accounts and Amazon VPCs, with no need for firewall rules, path definitions, or route tables. There is no need to configure an Internet gateway, VPC peering connection, or manage VPC Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDRs). -
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Ribbon PSX SWe
Ribbon Communications
Ribbon's PSX Software Edition (PSX SWe) is a virtualized, centralized policy and routing solution designed for service providers to manage and optimize VoIP services across diverse network environments. It delivers intelligent session control for session border controllers (SBCs), media gateways, and call controllers, supporting protocols such as SIP, ENUM, H.323, TDM, SS7/C7, IN/AIN, and IMS. The PSX SWe's distributed architecture enables providers to deploy local instances for performance and resiliency while maintaining centralized policy, routing, and administration, eliminating the need to synchronize configurations across numerous sites. Key applications include Least Cost Routing (LCR), Quality of Service (QoS) routing, toll-free number routing, and number translation services. Additionally, it functions as an IMS Breakout Gateway Control Function (BGCF) and provides call validation treatment for STIR/SHAKEN and Reputation Scoring services to mitigate call spoofing. -
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vInteract
Voxai Solutions
vInteract Cloud is a cloud-based Genesys Engage contact center solution built for companies who want a safe and secure cloud solution that is reliable (99.99%) and scales with your business. vInteract is fully customizable and managed in AWS and Azure secure tier 3 data centers. Voxai provides this robust cloud solution to businesses of all sizes as an open, scalable platform that delivers routing efficiencies via the sophisticated Genesys Engage routing engine. vInteract fulfills the requirements of the most complex enterprise contact centers with full omnichannel routing (agent, skills and predictive), advanced self-service, multimedia, analytics, workforce management and much more. Cloud components are deployed in an active/active configuration leveraging availability zones to ensure the highest service availability. Benefitting from AWS or Azure, our data centers are certified for SSAE-16, PCI, HIPAA, FEDRAMP, SOC and many other regulations. -
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PAiCore
PAiCore
PAiCore Technologies provides open source telecommunications core and signaling software designed to help mobile network operators, mobile virtual network operators, aggregators, and enterprises modernize, automate, and scale their network communication infrastructure with greater flexibility, lower costs, and freedom from traditional vendor lock-in. Its product portfolio includes components like a high-performance Short Message Service Center (SMSC) for robust multi-protocol messaging routing, USSD gateways for interactive session-based services, IP-SMS gateways for protocol interworking, and a Service Delivery Platform (SDP) that offers a no-code environment to create omni-channel communications (voice, SMS, USSD, social messaging, and AI) via a user-friendly interface and API integrations. PAiCore also offers geolocation APIs and core signaling tools such as Diameter routing, jSS7-based protocol bridges, and telephony application servers to support integrated messaging.Starting Price: €1,020 per month -
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Headscale
Juan Font
Headscale is an open-source, self-hosted implementation of the control server used by the Tailscale network, enabling users to keep full ownership of their private tailnets while using Tailscale clients. It supports registering users and nodes, issuing pre-authentication keys, advertising subnet-routes and exit-node capabilities, enforcing access-control lists, and integrating with OIDC/SAML identity providers for user authentication. The server is deployable via Debian/Ubuntu packages or standalone binaries, configurable through a YAML file, and managed via its CLI or REST API. Headscale tracks each node, route, and user in its database, supports route approval workflows, and enables features such as subnet routing, exit node designation, and node-to-node mesh within the tailnet. Being self-hosted, it gives organizations and hobbyists full control over their private network endpoints, encryption keys, and traffic flows, rather than depending on a commercial control plane.Starting Price: Free -
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As network operations become increasingly complex, businesses are facing another challenge when trying to meet demand—rigid service delivery and rising operating costs. Verizon’s Virtual Network Services (VNS) - Routing gives you a more simplified way to connect your people, places, and things. Unlike traditional appliance-based routers that might take weeks to implement, VNS - Routing can be deployed as quickly as a matter of minutes, using a pre-defined catalog of virtual functions and easy-to-deploy equipment that can support multiple network functions. This also expands your options for the routing services you want to use. Not only are you able to select different sizing models, but you can choose the router image that matches other technologies in your existing network.
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Lumen Cloud Connect
Lumen Technologies
Seamlessly link your cloud environments. Migrate to the cloud with Lumen Cloud Connect solutions for secure, high‑performance virtualized networking to leading public and private clouds. Dynamic SDN‑based controls can provide a network experience that matches your cloud experience. Connect your network to the cloud through high‑performance, secure, dynamic capacity and connectivity. Provide greater visibility and easily manage the traffic traversing your Ethernet virtual circuit to deliver mission‑critical apps from the cloud with exceptional uptime and responsiveness. Experience the benefits of the cloud with the proven security of a private network ecosystem when connecting to AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Oracle, and more. Secure self-service ability to immediately add and remove Ethernet services to cloud and data center environments via a portal or API integration. -
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Azure DNS
Microsoft
Use Azure DNS to host your Domain Name System (DNS) domains in Azure. Manage your DNS records using the same credentials, and billing and support contract, as your other Azure services. Seamlessly integrate Azure-based services with corresponding DNS updates and streamline your end-to-end deployment process. Azure DNS Private Resolver (in preview) is a cloud-native, highly available, and DevOps-friendly service. It provides a simple, zero-maintenance, reliable, and secure DNS service to resolve and conditionally forward DNS queries from a virtual network to on-premises DNS servers and other target DNS servers without the need to create and manage a custom DNS solution. Resolve DNS names hosted in Azure DNS private zones from on-premises networks as well as DNS queries for your own domain names. This will make your DNS infrastructure work privately and seamlessly across on-premises networks and enable key hybrid networking scenarios. -
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Polarin
Lightstorm
Polarin is a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform developed by Lightstorm, designed to provide businesses with agile and scalable networking interconnection capabilities. It enables seamless connections between data centers, hybrid and multi-cloud environments, internet exchanges, and SaaS applications in a secure and reliable manner. Polarin offers on-demand, dedicated connections ranging from 10 Mbps to 100 Gbps, allowing businesses to scale their network usage according to their needs. The platform supports easy connectivity to leading cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud, facilitating the management of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures dynamically and cost-effectively. Polarin's user-friendly interface provides centralized control, enabling users to monitor and manage all network connections in one place, optimizing network performance through improved routing, traffic management, and reduced latency. -
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HPE FlexNetwork VSR1000
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
The HPE FlexNetwork VSR1000 Virtual Services Router Series is a software-based router designed to deliver advanced routing and security services in virtualized environments. It enables enterprises and service providers to deploy routing services on demand without the need for physical hardware, offering flexibility and scalability. The VSR1000 supports a range of features, including dynamic routing protocols, firewall capabilities, VPN services, and quality of service (QoS) functionalities, making it suitable for various network scenarios. It is designed to integrate seamlessly with existing network infrastructures and can be managed using standard network management tools. For detailed information on configuration, deployment, and management, HPE provides comprehensive manuals and support documents accessible through their official support portal. -
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Oxide Cloud Computer
Oxide Cloud Computer
Vertically integrated and scale-ready. Bringing hyper-scaler agility to the mainstream enterprise. Software that empowers developers and operators alike. Launch projects within minutes of powering on. Per-tenant isolation gives you full control of networking, routing, and firewalls through VPC and network virtualization capabilities. Network services scale with your deployment, eliminating traditional bottlenecks. Elastic compute capacity can be provisioned against a single infrastructure pool, with support for the tools developers already use. High-performance, persistent block storage service with configurable capacity and IOPS per volume. Go from rack install to developer availability in a matter of hours, compared to weeks or months today. Takes up two-thirds as much space as traditional on-premises infrastructure. Manage with technologies you already know and use with our Kubernetes and Terraform integrations. -
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FRAFOS ABC SBC Platform
FRAFOS
The ABC Session Border Controller (SBC) by FRAFOS is a scalable solution designed for VoIP service providers and enterprises, capable of running on high-end hardware, appliances, and virtual machines. It offers secure session border control, signaling mediation, call routing, and advanced media server applications, addressing the dynamic needs of VoIP and NGN service providers. Key features include centralized management of multiple SBCs via the Cluster Configuration Manager (CCM), built-in support for announcements and transcoding directly on the SBC, and recording capabilities using SIPREC. The ABC SBC enhances network security through rate limiting, content control, topology hiding, and media control, effectively protecting against fraud and denial-of-service attacks. It supports up to 5,000 simultaneous calls on off-the-shelf hardware and can function as a VoIP load balancer. -
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Azure IoT Hub
Microsoft
Managed service for bidirectional communication between IoT devices and Azure. Enable highly secure and reliable communication between your Internet of Things (IoT) application and the devices it manages. Azure IoT Hub provides a cloud-hosted solution back end to connect virtually any device. Extend your solution from the cloud to the edge with per-device authentication, built-in device management, and scaled provisioning. Use device-to-cloud telemetry data to understand the state of your devices and define message routes to other Azure services—without writing any code. In cloud-to-device messages, reliably send commands and notifications to your connected devices and track message delivery with acknowledgement receipts. Automatically resend device messages as needed to accommodate intermittent connectivity. Azure IoT Central: Proof of concept isn’t your endgame. We’ll help you build industry-leading solutions with a hosted IoT application platform.Starting Price: $10 per IoT unit per month -
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Datto Networking Appliance (DNA)
Datto, a Kaseya company
Remain connected with high-performance routing, including built-in firewall, intrusion detection, and fully-integrated 4G LTE failover. Datto Networking’s cloud-managed Datto Networking Appliance (DNA) and D200 Edge Routers combine high-performance routing, firewall, web content filtering and fully integrated 4G LTE Internet failover, everything needed to deploy a network for SMB clients. The stateful firewall and the DNA’s intrusion detection and prevention help enhance the security of the network. -
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MidoNet
MidoNet
MidoNet is an Apache licensed production grade network virtualization software for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds. MidoNet decouples your IaaS cloud from your network hardware, creating an intelligent software abstraction layer between your end hosts and your physical network. This network abstraction layer allows the cloud operator to move what has traditionally been hardware-based network appliances into a software-based multi-tenant virtual domain. MidoNet brings production-grade distributed overlay networking to OpenStack. Features such as reduced complexity of physical network, high availability (any server, any network service, any time), scalability through hierarchy, reduced protocols, otimized network traffic with minimal overhead, vastly improved fault tolerance. -
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Datto Networking Edge Routers
Datto, a Kaseya company
Remain connected with high-performance routing, including built-in firewall, intrusion detection, and fully-integrated 4G LTE failover. Datto Networking’s cloud-managed Datto Networking Appliance (DNA) and D200 Edge Routers combine high-performance routing, firewall, web content filtering, and fully integrated 4G LTE Internet failover, everything needed to deploy a network for SMB clients. Datto Networking’s Edge Routers deliver the advanced routing performance needed for any client. Businesses can rely on an always up-and-running Internet connection thanks to a fully integrated 4G LTE failover. Stateful firewall and enhanced web content filtering help enhance the security of the network. Configuration settings and ongoing management of the Datto Networking Edge Routers begin in the cloud. Setting up network configurations takes a matter of minutes, not hours or days. Datto Networking’s Edge Routers deliver the advanced routing performance needed for any SMB client. -
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Azure FXT Edge Filer
Microsoft
Create cloud-integrated hybrid storage that works with your existing network-attached storage (NAS) and Azure Blob Storage. This on-premises caching appliance optimizes access to data in your datacenter, in Azure, or across a wide-area network (WAN). A combination of software and hardware, Microsoft Azure FXT Edge Filer delivers high throughput and low latency for hybrid storage infrastructure supporting high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.Scale-out clustering provides non-disruptive NAS performance scaling. Join up to 24 FXT nodes per cluster to scale to millions of IOPS and hundreds of GB/s. When you need performance and scale in file-based workloads, Azure FXT Edge Filer keeps your data on the fastest path to processing resources. Managing data storage is easy with Azure FXT Edge Filer. Shift aging data to Azure Blob Storage to keep it easily accessible with minimal latency. Balance on-premises and cloud storage. -
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Docker MCP Gateway
Docker
Docker MCP Gateway is an open source core component of the Docker MCP Catalog and Toolkit that runs Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in isolated Docker containers with restricted privileges, network access, and resource limits to ensure secure, consistent execution environments for AI tools. It manages the entire lifecycle of MCP servers, including starting containers on demand when an AI application needs a tool, injecting required credentials, applying security restrictions, and routing requests so the server processes them and returns results through a unified gateway interface. By consolidating all enabled MCP containers behind a single, unified endpoint, the Gateway simplifies how AI clients discover and access multiple MCP services, reducing duplication, improving performance, and centralizing configuration and authentication.Starting Price: Free -
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Azure Virtual Machines
Microsoft
Migrate your business- and mission-critical workloads to Azure infrastructure and improve operational efficiency. Run SQL Server, SAP, Oracle® software and high-performance computing applications on Azure Virtual Machines. Choose your favorite Linux distribution or Windows Server. Deploy virtual machines featuring up to 416 vCPUs and 12 TB of memory. Get up to 3.7 million local storage IOPS per VM. Take advantage of up to 30 Gbps Ethernet and cloud’s first deployment of 200 Gbps InfiniBand. Select the underlying processors – AMD, Ampere (Arm-based), or Intel - that best meet your requirements. Encrypt sensitive data, protect VMs from malicious threats, secure network traffic, and meet regulatory and compliance requirements. Use Virtual Machine Scale Sets to build scalable applications. Reduce your cloud spend with Azure Spot Virtual Machines and reserved instances. Build your private cloud with Azure Dedicated Host. Run mission-critical applications in Azure to increase resiliency. -
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Plixer Replicator
Plixer
Plixer Replicator is a networking appliance that collects, replicates, and forwards UDP data streams from exporting devices to multiple collection systems, enhancing the performance of security and management tools. By eliminating the need for intricate switch or router configurations, it protects infrastructure performance and reduces overhead. The appliance supports both hardware and virtual deployments, including ESX, Hyper-V, and KVM environments. Its dynamic data forwarding capabilities allow a single UDP traffic stream to be routed to multiple endpoints, ensuring optimal utilization of analysis tools. Additionally, Plixer Replicator enhances system resilience by distributing logs and data across varied repositories, thwarting attempts by hackers to erase their presence. The platform offers a user-friendly web interface and a robust command-line interface for configuration and management. -
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Azure Firewall
Microsoft
Azure Firewall is a managed, cloud-based network security service that protects your Azure Virtual Network resources. It's a fully stateful firewall as a service with built-in high availability and unrestricted cloud scalability. Azure Firewall is a managed, cloud-based network security service that protects your Azure Virtual Network resources. The stateful firewall service has built-in high availability and unrestricted cloud scalability to help you create, enforce, and log application and network connectivity policies across subscriptions and virtual networks. Simplify deployment and management of your network security with a scalable and highly available cloud native firewall. Centrally manage security across all virtual networks with a common set of network and application rules. -
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SBC Software Edition (SBC SWe)
Ribbon Communications
The Ribbon SBC Software Edition (SBC SWe) is a cloud-native, software-based Session Border Controller designed to secure and optimize real-time communications across various deployment environments. It offers the same robust features as Ribbon's hardware-based SBC 5400 and SBC 7000 appliances, including extensive audio codec transcoding, signaling interworking, call admission control, and comprehensive security measures such as encryption and protection against Denial of Service attacks. The SBC SWe can be deployed as a Virtual Machine (VM) on industry-standard servers in data centers, as a Virtual Network Function (VNF) in private clouds using OpenStack, or in public clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This flexibility allows enterprises to scale their communications infrastructure efficiently while maintaining high performance and security standards. -
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Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure is a comprehensive solution designed to protect and manage data within Microsoft Azure environments. It enables the creation of image-level backups and cloud-native snapshots of Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), ensuring efficient data protection and disaster recovery. The solution also supports backups of Azure SQL databases, Cosmos DB accounts, and Azure Files, providing flexibility across various Azure services. With policy-based automation, users can schedule backups and define retention settings tailored to their specific needs. Integration with Veeam Backup & Replication allows for centralized management of backup appliances, facilitating seamless data protection across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures.
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Dedicated.com
Dedicated.com
Deploy your servers & infrastructure with us today! With the best in DDoS protection, hardware, and premium bandwidth, you can't go wrong. With our 10+ Years in hosting & datacenter experience, you're in safe hands. Dedicated.com is here for you around the clock, dedicated to serving you. Premium bandwidth allows us to leverage up to 12 different ISP's. This gives you the best routing and network performance possible. Using the latest in DDoS mitigation technology, and next-generation hardware, we're sure to filter any attack of today and years to come. Our level of protection and performance is unmatched. Our DDoS appliances are on-site, in-line and always ready to mitigate! We keep all DDoS traffic on our Premium bandwidth. Rest assured, your service will remain at low latency even during an attack. Never get re-routed over low quality bandwidth. In-line & dedicated DDoS appliances available.Starting Price: $4 per month -
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Teridion
Teridion
Teridion is a superior cloud-based global connectivity platform. Teridion’s network delivers a high performance WAN as a service – SLA Guaranteed. The solution works with any edge device and is easy to scale and set up, with no hardware or software required. Teridion’s smart algorithm finds the best route; It controls when, where and how traffic flows. Protocol optimization imbedded in the platform. Thousands of sensors globally collect real-time Internet performance and reachability data. Our network sends more of your data, faster with 3-5 times more throughput vs the public Internet. Experience the highest quality of your audio and video calls – we guarantee it. Teridion for Enterprise delivers a fast, secure, and global WAN for your enterprise. Our WAN service is built on the networks of over 25 public cloud providers worldwide. like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Softlayer, Digital Ocean, and many others. -
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Cisco's Enterprise Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) solution enables organizations to virtualize critical network functions, allowing rapid deployment of network services across dispersed locations. By converting traditional hardware-based network functions into software, Cisco's NFV reduces the need for multiple physical appliances, leading to cost savings and simplified management. Cisco's NFV solution accelerates the deployment of new virtual network services, reduces operational complexity, and offers the flexibility to mix physical, virtual, Cisco, and third-party devices and services. This approach not only cuts costs but also frees up IT resources by minimizing the need for service visits, thereby enhancing overall network efficiency. It manages and automates the provisioning of network services across hardware or virtual platforms, streamlining operations and reducing manual interventions.
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Proxifier
Initex Software
Proxifier allows network applications that do not support working through proxy servers to operate through a SOCKS or HTTPS proxy and chains. Redirect connections of any internet app (browser, email, database, game, etc.) through a proxy. Control access to resources. Route all your connections through a single entry point. Update multiple configurations remotely from a single place. Route internet traffic through faster routes. Lightweight and flexible alternative to VPN. Tunnel your connections through encrypted channels. Use a proxy as a gateway for your internet activities. Assign different proxies or chains to different connections using the rule-based system. Proxifier is always up to date with the latest OS versions, including Windows 11 and macOS Ventura. Native C++ app. No third-party dependencies. Installer size is 4 MB.Starting Price: $39.95 -
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Batfish
Batfish
An open source network configuration analysis tool. Batfish finds errors and guarantees the correctness of planned or current network configurations. It enables safe and rapid network evolution, without the fear of outages or security breaches. Batfish was originally developed by researchers at Microsoft Research, UCLA, and USC. Many others have since contributed to it. It is currently maintained by Intentionet, who also offers Batfish Enterprise, a service that extends and enhances the core capabilities of Batfish. Analyze ACLs and firewalls rules using Batfish. Forwarding paths can be analyzed using traceroute and reachability queries. Analyze the impact of failures on the network and conduct Chaos Monkey style testing. Analyze routing tables computed by Batfish. Fast control plane analysis using an abstract representation. Network analysis in multivendor network with Cisco, Arista, Cumulus. -
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Notehub
Blues
Notehub is our cloud orchestration layer for bi-directional data routing from the Notecard to any cloud application, remote device management, product analytics, and over-the-air host firmware updates. Now, driven by customer feedback, we’ve introduced new subscription-based, feature-packed Notehub tiers alongside our existing consumption-credit model. Notehub natively supports secure routing to any cloud, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, and more, often in a “no code” implementation. Say goodbye to RAT-specific cloud orchestration platforms. Notehub’s omni-RAT architecture allows you to manage devices and route data transmitted by Wi-Fi, cellular, LoRa, or satellite. With Notehub’s plug-and-play JSON interface, you can stand up cloud-connected applications in hours, not months. Update an entire fleet of devices with just a few clicks. Notehub enables both cloud-based MCU host and Notecard firmware updates.Starting Price: $250 per month -
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ContextForge MCP Gateway is an open source Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateway, registry, and proxy platform that provides a unified endpoint for AI clients to discover and access tools, resources, prompts, and REST or MCP services in complex AI ecosystems. It sits in front of multiple MCP servers and REST APIs to federate and unify discovery, authentication, rate-limiting, observability, and traffic routing across diverse backends, with support for transports such as HTTP, JSON-RPC, WebSocket, SSE, stdio, and streamable HTTP, and can virtualize legacy APIs as MCP-compliant tools. It includes an optional Admin UI for real-time configuration, monitoring, and log visibility, and is designed to scale from standalone deployments to multi-cluster Kubernetes environments with Redis-backed federation and caching for performance and resilience.
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Perimeta SBC
Alianza
The Perimeta Session Border Controller (SBC) by Alianza is a cloud-native, software-only SBC designed to provide secure, scalable, and flexible solutions for voice and multimedia communications. It supports various deployment scenarios, including VoLTE, VoNR, SIP trunking, and Microsoft Teams direct routing, making it suitable for fixed-line, wireless, and enterprise access and interconnect environments. Perimeta operates on a zero-trust security model, ensuring robust protection for cloud infrastructure. Its unique media and signaling plane separation allows for granular scaling to meet changing demands. The SBC features a secure distribution engine (SDE) for load balancing and distributed admission control (DAM), simplifying massively scalable deployments. It is compatible with public, private, and hybrid cloud environments and can be deployed on platforms such as AWS, Azure, OpenStack, VMware, and ATCA hardware. -
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Lumen Wavelengths
Lumen Technologies
Leverage high‑capacity, low‑latency connectivity with the agility to maximize your digital infrastructure. Enable fast, secure connectivity to help support your latency‑sensitive, data‑intensive applications with Lumen Wavelength Solutions. Design, build, and run powerful low‑latency networking solutions that evolve alongside your business. Design and easily manage your wavelength services every step of the way. Protect your network against an evolving threat landscape with secure, dedicated, point‑to‑point connectivity and layer 1 encryption. Separate security domain management with two-form factor authentication. Deliver fast, high-availability services and applications leveraging low latency routes and competitive SLAs based on network redundancy with diverse gateways and route options. Smooth network optimizations, migrations, and upgrades with custom routing and design transparency.
