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Firewall Performance Evaluation
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By Super Admin
Published on 21/10/2008
 
Excerpt from:
June 1, 2007
Trusted Strategies LLC
Author: Bill Bosen

Secure Computing Sidewinder 7 vs. Check Point NGX R62

In view of the fact that firewall performance is becoming more and more critical, particularly in light of the need to scrutinize data packets at a more sophisticated level than ever before, we decided to put two industry leaders to the test.
Excerpt From:
June 1, 2007
Trusted Strategies LLC
Author: Bill Bosen

Secure Computing Sidewinder 7 vs. Check Point NGX R62

"In view of the fact that firewall performance is becoming more and more critical, particularly in light of the need to scrutinize data packets at a more sophisticated level than ever before, we decided to put two industry leaders to the test."

"Over the course of about two weeks, we performed multiple exhaustive performance tests. We conducted tests at the network layer (stateful inspection mode) and tests at the application layer (protocol inspection mode). We tested how fast raw UDP data could be pumped through the firewalls as well as TCP performance using a variety of test configurations."