Features
Here is a list of some of the unique features nEdge provides:
Secure DNS to block malicious domains
Provide fair bandwidth share between LAN devices
Block/throttle undesired protocols
Create users to group device together and assign block/bandwidth limit policies
Protect children from inappropriate content
Define per-user and per-protocol time/traffic quotas
Define customized routing policies with failover and load balance
Assisted monitoring device configuration
Moreover, since nEdge is based on the well known monitoring software ntopng, a lot more interesting features are available:
Malware hosts detection by the means of blacklists
Active discovery and classification of the active devices in the network
Accurate L7 traffic classification thanks to nDPI
Many traffic insights, for example per user, country, operating system views
Per host/device flows view
Traffic reports and charts of the past traffic
Alerts system with slack integration
Some of the ntopng features, however, are not available in nEdge:
No traffic profiles
No ability to read data from nProbe (e.g. NetFlow/sFlow data)
No LDAP integration
No SNMP devices monitoring
Warning
Currently, IPv6 traffic is neither handled nor forwarded by nEdge. IPv6 traffic is never forwarded to LAN or WAN devices.