Firewall Capacity and Load Capability

[Steve Leach]

Group, I am considering options for new Firewall protection for my employer. The environment will grow rapidly from 3 Webservers (serving Database queries) to 100 Webservers within 2 years. Hit rate is now 2million/week, and we expect that to hit up to 80million /week when the operation goes global. Firewall would have to sit between (using GTA speak from the PDF) users on protected network, large server base on the PSN (public access to the Web Database servers), and Internet (external network). Question: Is Gnatbox (GB100) a capable solution in handling this kind of load and in what configuration would it need to be implemented (i.e. Fibre Interface / Gigabit etc) Best Regards, Steve