We already did - results are on our Web site at www.nss.co.uk It will not be included in the MULTI-Gig test for fairly obvious reasons
Bob On 23/2/06 19:50, "Sap ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know its not on the list but I would give the Cisco ASA appliances a > look, I'm not going to give you a sales pitch but here's a link : > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6120/prod_brochure0900aecd80402ef4.html > > - SaP - > > On 2/22/06, Bob Walder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Test Your IDS Is your IDS deployed correctly? 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