We have several IPS vendors submitting Multi-Gig IPS products on the Bivio platform this year - results will be available in our multi-Gigabit IPS report in the summer.
Results from testing 1Gbps products on this platform will be available in the next few weeks Having done some very "quick and dirty" tests of the Bivio box on its own, I can confirm that the performance is pretty impressive, and the architecture/scalability looks good. Will be very interesting to see how the "software plus RISC" stacks up to the "ASIC/FPGA" solutions over time in terms of both performance and cost - should be an interesting report! :o) Bob Walder The NSS Group On 20/2/06 01:40, "Alan Shimel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marty > > Correct me if I am wrong, but that is on the bivio box correct? > Interestingly our tests on this platform were well below the advertised > rates. Are you planning any 3rd party testing of it? > > alan > > > StillSecure > Alan Shimel > Chief Strategy Officer > > O 303.381.3815 > C 516.857.7409 > F 303.381.3881 > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > blog http://ashimmy.typepad.com > > www.stillsecure.com > The information transmitted is intended only for the person > to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential material. > Review or other use of this information by persons other than > the intended recipient is prohibited. If you've received > this in error, please contact the sender and delete > from any computer. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Roesch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 1:31 PM > To: David Williams > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: IPS Reliability/Availability > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi David, > > You're referring to our IS 5800 chassis. The 5800 is a carrier grade > platform that uses a multiple PowerPC CPUs as the application > processors. It also uses a network processor for traffic management, > load balancing, and several other capabilities as well as another PPC > for systems management. The system is fully fault tolerant, you can > hot swap power supplies, network interface modules (NIMs), fan trays, > hard drives and even processor boards without requiring a restart of > the system. The NIMs also offer power-off fail-open capability. > Furthermore, the chassis is extensible, it's got a backplane > connector so you can attach another chassis to it and distribute the > applications and traffic across up to 8 more application CPUs (yep, > 14 CPUs of Snorting fury) so you've got some pretty significant > investment protection as well because you don't need to get out your > forklift to go to the "next step up platform" to get more > performance, you just add computing power as needed and we can run > all of our network-facing applications on it. > > We have configurations that offer 2 or 6 CPUs for our applications > right now and you can run intrusion detection, prevention or RNA in > any combination you like on the device at the same time on it. For > example, you could have one chassis with 4 ports doing IPS, 2 ports > doing IDS and 2 running RNA. > > Performance is very good as well, multi-gig processing is available > even in the 2 CPU configuration but obviously I don't have any third > party testing to point to so you can take that for what it's worth. > > -Marty > > - -- > Martin Roesch - Founder/CTO, Sourcefire Inc. - +1-410-290-1616 > Sourcefire - Security for the Real World - http://www.sourcefire.com > Snort: Open Source Network IDS - http://www.snort.org > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) > > iD8DBQFD9MTvqj0FAQQ3KOARAuKtAJ9zokhur/6W+ASEAaJVRbg/fqeFJACfRoAX > F7rAUA+dmmx1RFnPWj8PR0c= > =eVYv > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Test Your IDS > > Is your IDS deployed correctly? > Find out quickly and easily by testing it > with real-world attacks from CORE IMPACT. > Go to http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/CoreSecurity_focus-ids_040708 > to learn more. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Test Your IDS > > Is your IDS deployed correctly? > Find out quickly and easily by testing it > with real-world attacks from CORE IMPACT. > Go to http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/CoreSecurity_focus-ids_040708 > to learn more. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Test Your IDS Is your IDS deployed correctly? Find out quickly and easily by testing it with real-world attacks from CORE IMPACT. Go to http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/CoreSecurity_focus-ids_040708 to learn more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
