Johannesburg, 02 Sep 2009
3Com Corporation today introduced the H3C SecPath F-Series and H3C SecBlade VPN Firewalls. These new VPN firewalls deliver advanced, scalable, threat protection against business disruptions, potential revenue loss and damage to an organisation's reputation caused by security breaches.
The new products provide industry-leading price-performance and scalability in a future-proof architecture that reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO). While providing best-in-class performance, the systems take a fraction of the space and power of the leading competition.
“With the launch of our H3C SecPath solutions, 3Com delivers the maximum security protection required to protect today's large, global enterprises from the core to the edge of the network, while continuing to offer a price-performance advantage,” said Saar Gillai, 3Com senior vice-president, worldwide products and solutions.
“Our no compromise approach to integrating security and networking will enable businesses to build a Secure Network Fabric, ultimately protecting every point of the network from today's sophisticated zero-day attacks.”
Intended for enterprise edge, core, data centre and high-speed computing environments, the new firewalls come in appliance and blade form factors, and are currently undergoing ICSA Labs certification. The H3C SecPath F-Series and H3C SecBlade VPN Firewalls represent 3Com's initial product announcements as part of its security strategy to deliver a Secure Network Fabric through unified, high-performance, network-embedded security, including its industry-leading TippingPoint intrusion prevention system (IPS).
Highlights
3Com's new H3C SecPath F-Series and SecBlade VPN Firewalls are virtualised firewalls that combine state-of-the-art multi-core processors and the full feature set of the H3C Comware operating system, which provides seamless integration of security devices and management in network architectures. This results in a high-performance, high-availability solution that can be managed from the Intelligent Management Centre (IMC) console, reducing administrative and deployment overhead.
Key performance metrics are:
* The H3C SecPath family of standalone appliances offers scalable firewall performance from the core to the edge ranging from 200Mbps to 40Gbps. The high-end SecPath F5000-A5 modular security chassis offers line-rate protection for multiple 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections. At equivalent performance, the F5000-A5 firewall consumes half the space and one-fifth the power of the leading competitor, further reducing costs.
* The H3C SecBlade modules are designed for the H3C Switch 9500E and H3C Switch 7500 E Ethernet chassis, plus the H3C Switch 5820 flexible stackable family, and offer 6.5Gbps to 8Gbps of firewall performance per blade. H3C SecBlade modules enable comprehensive security solutions for customers looking to maximise availability and serviceability in their networks, while minimising the TCO.
3Com's new H3C SecPath F-Series and SecBlade VPN Firewalls will deliver support for real-time business-critical applications such as VOIP, video and collaboration applications. Key features include the ability to:
* Provide enhanced stateful packet inspection firewall filtering. This allows network and security administrators to control traffic down to the individual IP address and have fine-grain control of all security services to efficiently implement desired security policies.
* Create multiple zones and separate firewall instances on the same device (“virtual firewalls”). This allows for more granular security policies than traditional firewall devices, and traffic can be zoned among wired/wireless networks, employee/guest LANs or other network segmentation strategies. This greatly simplifies security deployments and contributes significantly to lowering TCO.
* Look inside encrypted IPsec VPN tunnels for attacks. This prevents the propagation of exploits between sites and provides protection from risks that can develop when laptop users terminate VPN connections outside of the office.
* Prioritise traffic based on policies. This ensures quality of service (QOS) for business-critical applications and appropriate performance for all applications.
* Block specific traffic such as Active-X and certain e-mail attachment types, helping ensure high-risk traffic is kept off the network.
Images available at 3Com Flickr Page
Product shots of new SecPath F-Series and SecBlade modules ()
Supporting Resources:
Link to SecPath data sheets
Link to SecBlade data sheets
Link to Defence-in-Depth security solutions
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