Please excuse the vendor plug but this thread was too close to what we've
developed to pass up...
RapidStream (www.rapidstream.com) will be announcing high-performance
security appliances starting in April. We are looking for good beta sites
to test our Gigabit and 100 Mbps Ethernet appliances. If you're interested,
send me an email.
Bruce
At 10:24 AM 3/3/00 -0800, Ryan McBride wrote:
>Lucent has a brand new product called the "Access Point 1000" which is a
>router/firewall/vpn solution, and claims to move data at speeds up to 450
>Mb/s (155Mb/s 3DES)
>
>-Ryan
>
>Henry Baez wrote:
> >
> > I am doing research on very high speed firewalls. I mean firewalls that
> > are right now available that could handle OC3 and higher speeds via Gig
> > Byte Etherenet cards. In searching the recent posting of this list and
> > a lot of general web searching, I have found only one firewall that
> > claims they can do so. It is call POTUS from a company called Livermore
> > Software Laboratories. I would very much like to find at lease another
> > vendor which at lease matches the claim of PORTUS, 300 MB plus through
> > put. Management, bless them, likes to have choices, I would like to
> > present more then one vendor if possiable.
> >
> > I have experiences with two commercial firewalls, Checkpoint and
> > Gauntlet, and one freeware firewall, Ipfilter. But the links where way
> > under 10 Meg Byte. None of the firewalls I have work on 'claim' the
> > speeds I am looking for. All the magazines 'test/reviews' I have looked
> > at top out at about 150 Meg. Byte. The number of users for this project
> > would not be large, but each one would be moving Gig Byte size files
> > across the world.
>
>--
>Ryan McBride - mcbride_at_countersiege.com
>Systems Security Consultant
>Countersiege Systems Corporation - http://www.countersiege.com
Received on Mar 06 2000
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