Re: 10Gb Firewalls

[Jens Brey <jens () chaos-co de>]

Hi,

take a look on Cisco ASA 5580-40 Firewall Edition 4 x 10GE Bundle.
• 10 Gbps Firewall
• 1 Gbps IPsec VPN

CISCO Part. No. ASA5580-40-10GE-K9

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/vpndevc/ps6032/ps6094/ps6120/prod_brochure0900aecd8048dba8.html

Hf, Jens


Kerry Milestone schrieb:
> Hello kind Wizards,
>
> I am investigating the possibilities of putting a firewall on the end 
> of a 10Gb link. I'd like to be able to inspect at 10Gb wirespeed. As 
> this is a scoping project (though it _has_ to happen due to the nature 
> of projects in the institute), cost is not the main issue. I've come 
> across the Nortel Switched Firewall 6000, however this 'only' does 6Gb 
> throughput.
>
> Alternatively, we have several firewalls which work at 1Gb and are 
> wondering if its a better to chanelize [sic] and put say 10 firewalls 
> each dealing with different traffic. In coming years, IP based VPN's 
> to other sites will become more used - and more 10Gb links to site 
> perhaps building up to a 40Gb WAN backbone. We currently have an IDS 
> which will can handle this much volume.
>
> The next question, is extending the SAN. If using iSCSI, is it better 
> to leave this traffic off the firewall and just route it through, say 
> a GRE tunnel without encryption?
>
> Would be keen to hear any thoughts on the theory of what I want to do. 
> Implementation is not so difficult, really after some 'best practices' 
> thoughts.
>
>
> Many thanks,
> Kerry.

_______________________________________________
firewall-wizards mailing list
firewall-wizards () listserv icsalabs com
https://listserv.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards