Editing Smoothwall (section)

===Past Products===

Smoothwall Server Edition was the first product from Smoothwall Ltd., released on 11 November 2001.  It was essentially Smoothwall GPL 0.9.9 with support included from the company.  This was &mdash; as were virtually all future products &mdash; made available to purchase on [[CD-ROM]] directly from Smoothwall Ltd. by mail order.

Initially announced in January 2002, and priced at £30, but never released,<ref name="news home server">{{cite web| title = Home Server Nearing Release, Screenshots Released| url = http://smoothwall.co.uk/news/item/20020109.02.html| date = 2002-01-09| access-date = 2007-02-25| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20020214001153/http://smoothwall.co.uk/news/item/20020109.02.html| archive-date = 2002-02-14}}</ref> Smoothwall Home Server was an aborted attempt to tap into the home and residential market.  It used the open source platform again as a base but included SmoothGuard, and would have permitted customers to make email support requests directly from Smoothwall Ltd.

Released on 17 December 2001, Smoothwall Corporate Server 1.0 was the first in a long line of separate, closed source releases from Smoothwall Ltd.  Forked from Smoothwall GPL 0.9.9SE, Corporate Server included additional features such as [[SCSI]] support, and the capability to increase functionality via add-on modules.  These modules included SmoothGuard (content filtering proxy), SmoothZone (multiple [[DMZ (computing)|DMZ]]) and SmoothTunnel (advanced VPN features).  Corporate Server was designed to become the backbone of all future products from the company, with the module functionality permitting customers to select the exact level of functionality they required.  Further modules have been released over time, each providing a particular set of functionality, such as [[traffic shaping]], and [[email]] [[Antivirus software|anti-virus]] and [[Anti-spam techniques (e-mail)|anti-spam]].

After Daniel Barron, author of [[DansGuardian]], joined the company in April 2002, a variant of Corporate Server called Smoothwall Corporate Guardian was released, integrating a fork of DansGuardian called SmoothGuardian.  Corporate Guardian is a stand-alone web proxy, cache and filtering solution.  SmoothGuardian was also made available as a stand-alone module for Corporate Server customers, replacing the SmoothGuard module.

School guardian was created as a variant of corporate guardian, adding [[Active Directory]]/[[Lightweight Directory Access Protocol|LDAP]] [[authentication]] support and firewall features in a package designed specifically for use in schools.

When released on 13 June 2005, version 4 of Corporate Server was renamed to Corporate Firewall. In February 2008, Corporate Guardian was renamed to Network Guardian with the release of the 2008 version.

Released on 9 May 2005, Smoothwall Advanced Firewall targeted the enterprise market directly by bundling Corporate Server with all available add-on modules, and adding further functionality, including Active Directory, [[eDirectory]] & LDAP authentication and the capability to use up to 20 network interfaces with external connection load balancing.

In April 2007, the company released the SmoothGuard UTM-1000<ref name="utm pc pro review">{{cite web| title = Product Reviews: Smoothwall UTM-1000| url = http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/125403/smoothwall-smoothguard-1000utm.html| date = January 2002| access-date = 2008-02-10}}</ref> [[Software appliance#Commercial software appliances|hardware appliance]], based on a commodity [[Intel Corporation|Intel]] [[Core 2 Duo]] 1[[Rack unit|U]] 19-inch [[19-inch rack#Equipment mounting|rack-mountable]] chassis.  The UTM-1000 came pre-installed with a variant of Smoothwall Advanced Firewall.