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| Developer(s) | Qbik New Zealand Limited |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 5 October 1995 |
| Stable release | |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Platform | x64 |
| Available in | English, Japanese, Russian |
| Type | Proxy serverRouterFirewallAntivirus programVPN ServerWeb cacheMail Server |
| License | Proprietary commercial software, free for 10 users |
| Website | http://www.wingate.com/ |
WinGate is an integrated multi-protocol proxy server, email server and internet gateway from Qbik New Zealand Limited in Auckland. It was first released in October 1995, and began as a re-write of SocketSet, a product that had been previously released in prototype form by Adrien de Croy.
WinGate proved popular, and by the mid- to late 1990s, WinGate was used in homes and small businesses that needed to share a single Internet connection between multiple networked computers. The introduction of Internet Connection Sharing in Windows 98, combined with increasing availability of cheap NAT-enabled routers, forced WinGate to evolve to provide more than just internet connection sharing features. Today, focus for WinGate is primarily access control, email server, caching, reporting, bandwidth management and content filtering.
WinGate comes in three versions, Standard, Professional and Enterprise. The Enterprise edition also provides an easily configured virtual private network system, which is also available separately as WinGate VPN. Licensing is based on the number of concurrently connected users, and a range of license sizes are available. Multiple licenses can also be aggregated.[2]
The current version of WinGate is version 9.4.5, released in October 2022.[1]
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