We already did - results are on our Web site at www.nss.co.uk
It will not be included in the MULTI-Gig test for fairly obvious reasons
Bob
On 23/2/06 19:50, "Sap ." <0xsapx0_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 <bwalder_at_spamcop.net> 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" <ashimel_at_stillsecure.com> 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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>>> 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
>>>
>>> - --
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