Experience unparalleled value and performance with the Netgate^® 8300 Security Gateway powered by pfSense^® Plus software. The Netgate 8300 is tailored for medium-to-large businesses, xSP, and MSP/MSSP with high connectivity and stability requirements. This unit is enterprise-ready, featuring Netgate's most expandable chassis and hot-swappable PSUs, ensuring mission-critical reliability and ease of maintenance.

This security gateway boasts a formidable 2.0 GHz, 8-core, 16-thread Intel^® Xeon^® D-1733NT processor with Intel AVX-512 for exceptional Firewall and VPN performance. With quad 10G SFP+ ports, quad 1G SFP ports, and triple 2.5G RJ-45 ports, plus expandability with 10G, 25G, and 100G ports via PCIe cards, the Netgate 8300 future-proofs your network infrastructure, scaling effortlessly with your business.

The Netgate 8300 maximizes your investment by delivering high-performance throughput at an incredibly competitive cost per gigabit. Compared to the 1541, it boasts a remarkable 47% firewall performance gain, a 100% improvement in VPN and routing throughput, and a 175% increase in port density.

This compact 1U chassis optimizes space efficiency in server rooms and data centers, ideal for mission-critical deployments requiring robust high availability options and hot-swappable dual-power capability. Redefine your network standards by offering superior scalability, performance, and cost efficiency that exceeds industry expectations with Netgate's 8300 Security Gateway.

CPU: Eight-core 2.0 GHz Intel Xeon CPU.
Delivers 36 Gbps routing for everyday iPerf3-bidirectional traffic and over 26 Gbps of firewall throughput

Network Ports: 11 Independent 1G, 2.5G, and 10G ports.
Maximum port flexibility - with 1G, 2.5G, and 10G Ethernet configurable as WAN or LAN across the combination of 11 RJ45 and SFP ports

Expandability: 1 x PCIe 3.0 x8 for half-length low profile cards and 1 xPCIe 4.0 x16 for full-height three-quarters length cards

Storage: 512 GB NVMe 2280 M-Key M.2 SSD

Memory: 32 GB DDR4, ECC, 3200MHz via 2x 16 GB UDIMM

Power:
Dual hot-swappable PSU bays
Base: 1 x Internal 500W PSU (hot-swappable) included, 110V/240V AC input
MAX: 2 x Internal 500W PSU (hot-swappable) included, 110V/240V AC input
Cooling: Active - 7x chassis fans at the rear of the enclosure