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Security:
NetScreen Raises Bar With
Next-Generation Security Platform
Continuing its consistent track record of introducing ground-breaking
security
solutions, NetScreen Technologies Inc announced availability of the
NetScreen-ISG 2000, the industry's first integrated security gateway uniquely
designed to provide best-of-breed perimeter security functionality protecting
against network- and application-level threats, while optimizing performance
and decreasing complexity of enterprise and carrier networks.
Unlike other security solution developers' integration approaches that can
force customers to make performance and network compromises, NetScreen's new
purpose-built system with a modular design and a unique processing
architecture -- including NetScreen's new fourth-generation Application
Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) -- integrates firewall and virtual private
network (VPN) technologies and will be able to support integrated intrusion
detection and prevention (IDP) functionality. As a result, the NetScreen-ISG
2000 provides exceptional performance as well as flexibility and scalability
to combat today's and tomorrow's sophisticated threats.
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The NetScreen-ISG 2000 is ideal for enterprises, carriers and data center
operators struggling to efficiently address the increasing volume and
sophistication of attacks that are threatening their networks while
maintaining performance and balancing limited IT resources and budgets.
"There is an overriding trend to integrate many security functions into
fewer
devices; however, without the right design and combination of functionality,
there can be serious network performance and management drawbacks," said Jeff
Wilson, principal analyst at Infonetics Research. "When Netscreen approached
this problem, they were very conscious of the integration pitfalls;
NetScreen-ISG 2000 is a great example of the successful marriage of
management, performance and feature integration."
Unique Processing Architecture
The NetScreen-ISG 2000, capable of 2 Gb per second firewall and 1 Gb per
second 3DES/AES IPSec VPN performance, supports up to 8 Gigabit Ethernet
interfaces, 28 Fast Ethernet interfaces or a combination of both. It also can
support up to 10,000 VPN tunnels, 512,000 concurrent sessions and 30,000 new
sessions per second. This performance acceleration is achieved by leveraging a
unique combination of flexible processing power that includes dual GHz Central
Processing Units (CPUs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and
NetScreen's next-generation ASIC, the GigaScreen3 -- the industry's first
programmable ASIC to perform Gigabit-speed, hardware-accelerated AES and 3DES
encryption and multi-Gigabit firewall inspection for any packet size.
Doubling the performance from its previous generation ASIC, NetScreen's
newest
ASIC delivers up to 3 million packets per second (pps) for firewall processing
and 1.5 million pps encryption processing with low latency throughput at any
packet size, which is critical for complex applications like Voice over IP
(VoIP). Additionally, multiple embedded processors accelerate features such as
Denial of Service protection and encryption fragmentation, while providing a
means of integrating additional features through future software updates.
Further, the NetScreen-ISG 2000 system architecture is uniquely designed to
provide wirespeed firewall and VPN packet processing while simultaneously
performing policy-based redirection of selected sessions to specific security
modules for additional security processing. The GigaScreen3 ASIC can balance
sessions across up to three security modules, each with dual GHz CPUs, an FPGA
and memory to run the security applications, such as intrusion detection and
prevention.
In addition to the unique design of the system, NetScreen-ISG 2000
customers
can benefit from the security and networking capabilities built into
NetScreen's operating software, ScreenOS, including Deep Inspection firewall
technology, dynamic route-based VPN and virtualization capabilities, as well
as support for BGP, RIPv2 and OSPF routing protocols that can ease deployment
in many complex environments. Also, active/active and active/passive High
Availability (HA) options can eliminate a single point of failure and maximize
network connectivity and productivity.
"The new, highly scalable NetScreen-ISG 2000 platform represents a new
class
of product designed to address sophisticated network- and application-level
attacks while enabling optimal network performance and minimizing operational
overhead," said David Flynn, vice president of marketing for NetScreen. "Its
unique processing architecture and modular design are critical to achieving
scalable performance and security functionality that can help protect networks
now and into the future."
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