Should I buy NetSpective software or the NetSpective appliance?
You should purchase the NetSpective appliance if you need to guarantee full filtering functionality at 100 Mbps and want the highest possible platform reliability; NetSpective appliance offers guaranteed availability 24 x 7, for three years. For organizations having between 50 and 500 users, this high degree of reliability and bandwidth protection will probably be unnecessary, in which case NetSpective software should be your choice. NetSpective software delivers the full feature set and functionality of the NetSpective appliance but without the hardware platform and associated guarantees or the 100 Mbps guarantee.