LOOPHOLD Security Distribution has introduced SonicWALL’s SuperMassive E10000 Series of Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) consisting of the E10100, the E10200, the E10400 and the flagship E10800. The SuperMassive Series features a scalable multi-core architecture that utilises up to 96 cores of processing power. It delivers more than 40 Gbps of firewall throughput and over 30 Gbps of application control and Intrusion Prevention Service (IPS) with power, space and cooling (PSC) metrics.
“Next-generation firewalls are an imperative for large corporate networks and South African organisations now have access to a solution that is geared in terms of size and power. As threats increase and proliferate at unprecedented speeds, SonicWALL’s SuperMassive E10000 series provides protection that matches the needs of large companies.” says Martin Tassev, MD at LOOPHOLD Security Distribution
The SuperMassive E10000 Series utilises SonicWALL’s Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection (RFDPI) engine to scan every byte of every packet with full content inspection of the entire stream while providing high performance and low latency. It enables comprehensive protection regardless of transport or protocol. The SonicWALL SuperMassive E10000 Series addresses the security needs of enterprises, governments, universities, and service provider deployments and secures enterprise networks, data centers and server farms.
“We believe that today, less than 1% of corporate networks are secured using next-generation firewalls,” says Greg Young, research vice president at Gartner. “Security vendors are making strides to eliminate the deep inspection quality and performance penalty that has been a barrier to next-generation firewall deployments. This paves the way for much broader acceptance. We expect that by 2014, 35% of all enterprises will have installed a next-generation firewall with tightly integrated intrusion prevention and application visibility and control capabilities.”
“SuperMassive makes next-generation security a reality for even the largest and highest performance networks delivering full application control and content security that eliminates threats entering the network,” says John Gmuender, vice president of engineering and CTO at SonicWALL. “Our patented RFDPI technology is superior to outdated proxy designs that reassemble content using sockets bolted to anti-malware programs that are plagued with inefficiencies and overhead of socket memory thrashing which leads to low performance and high latency that is completely unacceptable in high performance networks.”
Each model of the SonicWALL SuperMassive E10000 Series is upgradeable, enabling flexible security infrastructure investments as network bandwidth and security requirements increase.
By Angela Meadon
