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| Check Point Installs Intel Dual-Core Processors  Check Point Software has announced a performance breakthrough for security software in demanding network security environments. By utilizing Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 5100 products, Check Point VPN-1 Power now offers the best-in-class performance of any integrated firewall, VPN and intrusion prevention software available in the security market by delivering 10 Gigabits per second of throughput – a security industry first delivered on an open-server platform. This combined technology surpasses the speed of expensive specialized hardware while offering customers the flexibility to take advantage of the most recent high performance hardware developments.The adoption of advanced, bandwidth-intensive applications such as VoIP, streaming video and real-time collaborative solutions have created a demand for high performance security solutions able to keep networks secure from Internet attacks and application vulnerabilities without performance degradation. Deep packet inspection of traffic with intrusion prevention enabled on a network firewall can significantly slow packet processing, causing an organization-wide bottleneck. Many organizations have turned to ASIC-based hardware to address performance needs but these appliances are expensive, difficult to upgrade and encounter depreciating performance as they deal with new threats. Check Point VPN-1 Power is the industry's first integrated firewall, VPN and intrusion prevention solution that delivers the high performance needed to protect large enterprise, high-traffic networks. Through BIOS enhancements and the combination of Check Point SecureXL software acceleration technology with Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors 5100 innovations, the optimized open server platform used by Check Point VPN-1 Power enables customers to gain the pre-emptive, deep packet inspection protection of SmartDefense intrusion prevention while future-proofing their investment in network security software with a solution that achieves up to 10 Gbps of throughput. Check Point's open server approach delivers the promise, flexibility and affordability of software and allows customers to take advantage of complementary technology breakthroughs without protracted waiting due to firmware upgrades or hardware refresh-cycles. By utilizing this solution, companies can secure advanced, media-rich applications while protecting against the latest worms and application-level threats using general purpose hardware – saving time and money. Check Point VPN-1 Power delivers accelerated security for today's demanding environments, with tightly integrated firewall, VPN, and intrusion prevention technologies that provide comprehensive security and remote connectivity for corporate applications and network resources. Using SecureXL security acceleration, it accelerates the industry's most intelligent security inspection technologies, Stateful Inspection and Application Intelligence, providing pre-emptive attack prevention against network and application-layer attacks for high-performance networks. VPN-1 Power is available on the industry's broadest range of open platforms and security appliances — meeting the price-performance requirements of any size organization. Check Point SecureXL is a software interface that enables Check Point to leverage technologies from multiple silicon, appliance and computer system partners to accelerate the performance of firewall and VPN gateways by off-loading simple, though computationally intensive functions to third-party packet processors. Devices utilizing the SecureXL technology meet customer needs by delivering multi-gigabit performance in multiple form factors and dramatically improving performance in real-world traffic conditions. Check Point VPN-1 Power achieves performance metrics unmatched by any security vendor in the market at the same price-for-performance measurement. Some key statistics include: * 10 Gigabits per second security inspection on a reference server * Delivers 430 Mbps of throughput with firewall and intrusion prevention enabled for deep packet inspection * 2.000.000 packets per second throughput to secure next generation communications such as VoIP and streaming video without performance degradation * Up to 3.17 Gbps of encrypted traffic throughput for IPSec VPN realized on a reference platform. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |