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
> >
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> > From: Martin Roesch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 1:31 PM
> > To: David Williams
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> > Subject: Re: IPS Reliability/Availability
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> > 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
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