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SonicWALL Unveils Line Of High-Performance Multicore, Next-Gen Firewall Appliances: Page 3 of 3

SonicWALL has announced a series of four high-end, multicore, next-generation firewall appliances, topping out at a 96-core behemoth with clustering options for up to 384 cores. The appliances leverage SonicWALL's deep packet inspection (DPI) capabilities to apply application intelligence and user identity for fine-grained policy and rule creation, as well as bandwidth and application usage control. The announcement was made at the RSA Conference today.
February 14, 2011

"It's caveat emptor," Young says. "You have to size boxes carefully. It really is an engineering exercise." As a rule of thumb, he says, expect 50 percent performance with IPS turned on, perhaps as low as 30 percent.

The four appliances start with the E10100, with 12 processing cores and 12 additional integrated cores for high availability. The E10020 has 24 processing cores; the E10400 48 processing cores and the E10800 has 96. The E10010 will be available in late first quarter, early second quarter; the other three boxes will be available in late Q2. Pricing is not yet set, but a fully loaded E10800 will likely be between $300,000 and $400,000 including service and support, and the E10100 will cost less than $100,000 according to SonicWALL.

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