I know its not on the list but I would give the Cisco ASA appliances a look, I'm not going to give you a sales pitch but here's a link : http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6120/prod_brochure0900aecd80402ef4.html
- SaP - On 2/22/06, Bob Walder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have several IPS vendors submitting Multi-Gig IPS products on the Bivio > platform this year - results will be available in our multi-Gigabit IPS > report in the summer. > > Results from testing 1Gbps products on this platform will be available in > the next few weeks > > Having done some very "quick and dirty" tests of the Bivio box on its own, I > can confirm that the performance is pretty impressive, and the > architecture/scalability looks good. > > Will be very interesting to see how the "software plus RISC" stacks up to > the "ASIC/FPGA" solutions over time in terms of both performance and cost - > should be an interesting report! :o) > > Bob Walder > The NSS Group > > > On 20/2/06 01:40, "Alan Shimel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Marty > > > > Correct me if I am wrong, but that is on the bivio box correct? > > Interestingly our tests on this platform were well below the advertised > > rates. Are you planning any 3rd party testing of it? > > > > alan > > > > > > StillSecure > > Alan Shimel > > Chief Strategy Officer > > > > O 303.381.3815 > > C 516.857.7409 > > F 303.381.3881 > > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > blog http://ashimmy.typepad.com > > > > www.stillsecure.com > > The information transmitted is intended only for the person > > to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential material. > > Review or other use of this information by persons other than > > the intended recipient is prohibited. If you've received > > this in error, please contact the sender and delete > > from any computer. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Martin Roesch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 1:31 PM > > To: David Williams > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] > > Subject: Re: IPS Reliability/Availability > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi David, > > > > You're referring to our IS 5800 chassis. The 5800 is a carrier grade > > platform that uses a multiple PowerPC CPUs as the application > > processors. It also uses a network processor for traffic management, > > load balancing, and several other capabilities as well as another PPC > > for systems management. The system is fully fault tolerant, you can > > hot swap power supplies, network interface modules (NIMs), fan trays, > > hard drives and even processor boards without requiring a restart of > > the system. The NIMs also offer power-off fail-open capability. > > Furthermore, the chassis is extensible, it's got a backplane > > connector so you can attach another chassis to it and distribute the > > applications and traffic across up to 8 more application CPUs (yep, > > 14 CPUs of Snorting fury) so you've got some pretty significant > > investment protection as well because you don't need to get out your > > forklift to go to the "next step up platform" to get more > > performance, you just add computing power as needed and we can run > > all of our network-facing applications on it. > > > > We have configurations that offer 2 or 6 CPUs for our applications > > right now and you can run intrusion detection, prevention or RNA in > > any combination you like on the device at the same time on it. For > > example, you could have one chassis with 4 ports doing IPS, 2 ports > > doing IDS and 2 running RNA. > > > > Performance is very good as well, multi-gig processing is available > > even in the 2 CPU configuration but obviously I don't have any third > > party testing to point to so you can take that for what it's worth. > > > > -Marty > > > > - -- > > Martin Roesch - Founder/CTO, Sourcefire Inc. - +1-410-290-1616 > > Sourcefire - Security for the Real World - http://www.sourcefire.com > > Snort: Open Source Network IDS - http://www.snort.org > > > > > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) > > > > iD8DBQFD9MTvqj0FAQQ3KOARAuKtAJ9zokhur/6W+ASEAaJVRbg/fqeFJACfRoAX > > F7rAUA+dmmx1RFnPWj8PR0c= > > =eVYv > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Test Your IDS > > > > Is your IDS deployed correctly? > > Find out quickly and easily by testing it > > with real-world attacks from CORE IMPACT. > > Go to http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/CoreSecurity_focus-ids_040708 > > to learn more. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Test Your IDS > > > > Is your IDS deployed correctly? > > Find out quickly and easily by testing it > > with real-world attacks from CORE IMPACT. > > Go to http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/CoreSecurity_focus-ids_040708 > > to learn more. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Test Your IDS > > Is your IDS deployed correctly? > Find out quickly and easily by testing it > with real-world attacks from CORE IMPACT. > Go to http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/CoreSecurity_focus-ids_040708 > to learn more. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Test Your IDS Is your IDS deployed correctly? 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