VigorACS 3 is the latest update of DrayTek’s Network Management System (NMS). It supports all current DrayTek routers, access points, and switches, providing an integrated platform for configuration, monitoring, and management. VigorACS 3 is also the core of the DrayTek SD-WAN solution. It is the central software where Network Administrator can perform configuration, provisioning, and monitoring to the edge routers. With the support of server load balancing/failover, VigorACS 3 meets most of the ISP/Enterprise requirements of server SLA and resilience and is ideal for hosting both public/private cloud management services.

Renjan George, Managing Director, DVCOM Technology

Key Features:

• Provisioning – Allow new devices to set themselves up and download the latest firmware
• Monitoring – Get notified when a device lost its WAN, VPN, or connection with the ACS server
• Statistics – Network insights about device, client, and traffic over a specified period
• VPN Wizard – Create an IPsec, L2TP, or SSL VPN between managed devices within a few clicks
• Maintenance – Schedule an off-hour firmware update, configuration change, or device restart
• Report – Generate a network-based report about traffic, firmware version, device status, and more

SD-WAN Orchestrator

Quality-Driven Dashboard: The quality of every WAN/VPN interface is measured by latency, loss, and jitter. A quality-driven dashboard helps Network administrators to understand the reliability of the interfaces at one glance.

VoIP MOS and SLA: Every VoIP call is also monitored by MOS, latency, loss, and jitter. With a call history list, Network Administrator can easily retrieve information for calls with poor quality.

VoIP Experience Optimization: Based on the interface quality records, VigorACS 3 can adjust the metric to make sure all edge routers always use the best-quality interface for VoIP to optimize the VoIP experiences.

Application Visibility and SD-WAN Policy: The application visibility lets Network Administrator understand the data usage. From every single client, via which WAN, to which application, at what time.

Based on the application visibility, Network Administrator can create SD-WAN policies to send business-critical applications through the best-quality interface to optimize the user experience.

Client Management with Captive Portal

VigorACS 3 as Captive Portal Server: Many of the Vigor Router and VigorAP models support captive portal functions, that they can redirect LAN clients to VigorACS 3 to go through the hotspot login process. This function is ideal for retail, restaurants, coffee shops, and hospitality to do Wi-Fi marketing and learn more about their clients for future marketing campaigns.

Hotspot Clients Analytics: Besides the splash page, VigorACS 3 also provides a detailed analytics view, where business owners can have an in-depth understanding of the new customers, the return customers, the visiting frequency, and which branches have been visited…etc. Further marketing campaigns can be made accordingly.

Robust Splash Page with Multilingual: Intuitively customize the splash page to meet business needs. The live preview provides a “what you see is what you get” experience of splash page editing. Supporting 20 different languages, restaurant/hospitality business owners can speak their customers’ language.
Hotspot Clients Analytics: Besides the splash page, VigorACS 3 also provides a detailed analytics view, where business owners can have an in-depth understanding of the new customers, the return customers, the visiting frequency, and which branches have been visited, etc. Further marketing campaigns can be made accordingly.

Back in 1990s and early 2000s, consumers demanded internet connection at home, which swiftly changed to the need for wireless internet connection. The evolution of network technology, and the growing number of devices simultaneously being connected to the router, has driven an evolution in consumer demand from having internet connectivity everywhere at home, to now having high network performance.

Network providers have matched this transforming demand over the years by bringing innovative products and technologies to the market, from routers and wireless routers to ranges extenders and MU-MIMO-enabled routers. MU-MIMO-enabled routers manage multiple devices connected to the network giving consumers optimised performance even at the edge of the network.

“Consumers are quickly realising that the bottleneck in their network performance is being caused by old router technology that cannot withstand the increasing number of smart devices attached to the Wi-Fi network. We expect that in 2017, many consumers will upgrade their Wi-Fi routers to achieve higher performance from their network and smart devices,” said Amanulla Khan, Managing Director, Linksys, Middle East, Turkey & Africa.

Higher networking performance and the increased availability of premium networking products are going to complement and accelerate the adoption of smart home technology, which is yet to become a mass market product. With technology converging between smart homes and networking routers, the year 2017 will see more connected homes adopting smart home technology.

With so much original content accessible from streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon, consumers no longer need to worry that cutting the cable cord will mean leaving their favorite shows behind. In 2017, a household’s Internet connection will become the entertainment lifeline with more consumers upgrading to MU-MIMO routers and using range extenders that rebroadcast the Wi-Fi signal.

Wi-Fi is a valuable tool even for children, with the internet being an essential resource for education and entertainment. Internet acts as an expansive multimedia library with readily available content for children to find and absorb. But not all available content is appropriate these days. Children may end up at unsafe sites through innocent search or by clicking links to supposedly safe videos and being exposed to sites with pornography, gruesome images, violence, and other inappropriate content.

This year, many parents will readily adopt methods that helps create a safe online environment for children. Using applications like the Linksys ‘Smart Wi-Fi App’ which provides features that allow parents to block internet sites and apps on specific devices, as well as restrict internet access, and at specific times. The Smart Wi-Fi App also provides alerts to when specific devices come online.