Marketing description

The Check Point Advanced Networking and Clustering Software Blade simplifies network security deployment and management within complex and highly utilized networks, while maximizing network performance and security in multi-Gbps environments. This combination is ideal for high-end enterprise and datacenter environments where performance and availability are critical.

Key selling points

• ISP Redundancy for reliability and fault-tolerance
• QoS prioritization guarantees bandwidth and controls latency
• Application load balancing manages server workloads during high volume traffic
• SecureXL accelerates multiple intensive security operations
• CoreXL multi-core acceleration increases deep inspection throughput
• ClusterXL provides high availability and load sharing for business continuity
• Activate advanced networking and clustering on any Check Point Security Gateway
• Saves time and reduces costs by leveraging existing security infrastructure

Product features

• Advanced routing
  Organizations looking to implement scalable, fault-tolerant, secure networks can use the Advanced Networking Software Blade to run industry-standard dynamic routing protocols including BGP, OSPF, RIPv1 and RIPv2 on security gateways. Organizations looking to implement scalable, fault-tolerant, secure networks can use the Advanced Networking Software Blade to run industry-standard dynamic routing protocols including BGP, OSPF, RIPv1 and RIPv2 on security gateways. OSPF, RIPv1 and RIPv2 enable dynamic routing over a single autonomous system - like a single department, company, or service provider - to avoid network failures.
• Quality of Service prioritization for both encrypted and unencrypted traffic
  Advanced Networking lets you prioritize business-critical traffic such as ERP, database, and web services traffic over less time-critical traffic. Advanced Networking lets you prioritize business-critical traffic such as ERP, database, and web services traffic over less time-critical traffic. It also allows you to guarantee bandwidth and control latency for streaming applications such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and video conferencing. In addition, with highly granular controls, Advanced Networking enables guaranteed or priority access to specific employees - even if they are remotely accessing network resources through a VPN tunnel.
• ISP Redundancy
  ISP Redundancy assures reliable Internet connectivity by allowing a single or clustered security gateway to connect to the Internet through redundant Internet Service Provider (ISP) links. ISP Redundancy assures reliable Internet connectivity by allowing a single or clustered security gateway to connect to the Internet through redundant Internet Service Provider (ISP) links. This feature does not require costly new networking hardware or specialized knowledge to operate.
• Flexible server load balancing
  Each connection request is directed to a specific server based on one of five pre-defined load balancing algorithms. Each connection request is directed to a specific server based on one of five pre-defined load balancing algorithms. The server load algorithm prevents any server from handling a disproportionately high volume of traffic. Each incoming connection request is directed to the server experiencing the lightest load.
• Security acceleration with patented SecureXL
  Patented Check Point security acceleration technology, SecureXL, removes latency associated with intense security processing by creating a special device layer that can make security decisions earlier. In both servers and dedicated appliances, performance is affected negatively by memory, system-bus, and CPU speed as traffic passes through a system. By creating a SecureXL device layer, the Check Point Security Gateway enables security decisions to be made at a lower application level to remove performance bottlenecks. After the start of a transaction, if a packet is examined using traditional security methods and is determined to be safe, the SecureXL device layer takes over responsibility for examining any remaining packets - cutting out latency caused by hardware design.
• Multi-core CPU support with patented CoreXL
  Multi-core CPU support enables Check Point Security Gateways to share traffic among cores of a single system, providing superior price/performance on a single server. Multi-core CPU support enables Check Point Security Gateways to share traffic among cores of a single system, providing superior price/performance on a single server. The combination of multi-core CPUs and multi-threaded SecureXL security application technology is the foundation for the next generation of security acceleration - application-layer security.
• Gateway clustering with patented ClusterXL
  ClusterXL provides high availability and load sharing that keeps businesses running without interruption. ClusterXL provides high availability and load sharing that keeps businesses running without interruption. ClusterXL distributes traffic between clusters of redundant gateways, combining the computing capacity of multiple machines to increase total throughput. In the event of a gateway or network failure, connections are seamlessly redirected to a designated backup, maintaining business continuity. This enables near-linear scalability for large deployments without the cost of separate load-balancing equipment.