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Last month, SonicWall rolled out its next-generation unified threat management firewall appliance geared for the enterprise. In our exclusive test of the Network Security Appliance E7500, results show that SonicWall has, indeed, crashed through the speed barrier.
This box offers 1.3Gbps of UTM performance, which is nearly triple the speed of the fastest product in our comparative UTM test last November (See comparative UTM test).
While SonicWall has not changed much on the surface of its firewall, there are dramatic differences in the internal architecture that yield performance gains that leapfrog the throughput numbers of the SonicWall Pro product line. This makes UTM features including intrusion-prevention system (IPS), antivirus, antispyware, and content filtering cost-effective because they can run at gigabit speeds. (Compare UTM products in UTM Buyer’s Guide.)
SonicWall's NSA firewall line, based on a family of multi-core security processors from Cavium, is called the company's "generation 5 product." The new hardware (six models have been announced already) is slated to entirely replace the company's old Pro series.
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The high-end E7500 that we tested has a 16-core Cavium CPU, with each core operating at 600MHz. One core is dedicated to system management, while the other 15 are used for security processing, including firewall, VPN and other UTM features such as antivirus, IPS and content filtering. Also built into the CPU is hardware acceleration for cryptography (useful in VPNs), compression, and regular expressions, which compare a pattern against a string, and are heavily used in most IPS rule sets. SonicWall claims it took 18 months to port its existing operating system to effectively make use of the multicore capabilities of the new hardware.
Spoken like a true IT "pro" who is stuck in 90s. Good luck with that chief. Sounds like it's YOU who...- Anonbackatcha
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Comments (6)
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traffic profile...By nin4086 on May 12, 2008, 3:40 pmI would like to know what kind of traffic profile was used in the test...1.3Gbps seems pretty low for a 16-core processor
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You may wish to check outBy Jon on May 8, 2008, 4:59 pmYou may wish to check out the new Application Firewall features available in the latest firmware releases for the PRO 3060 and above, and as standard on the NSA...
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