Ethernet Switching Reference Guide
• The Alteon Switched Firewall provides the best
price/throughput ratio on the market making it
the best choice for performance hungry networks.
Features and Benefits
• Integrated market leading Check Point NG firewall
software with performance enhancements
• Switched-based session acceleration enables
tremendous improvement in firewall
performance
• Total compatibility with Check Point NAT and the
added feature of offloading CPU intensive NAT
functions to the Switched Firewall Accelerator
• Highest performing firewall on market with
3.2Gbps throughput and 500,000 simultaneous
sessions
• High availability allows automatic fail-over to
back up firewall devices.
• Discrete switch and firewall fail-over eliminating
single points of failure.
• Plug and Play allows additional Switched Firewall
Directors to be auto-detected upon power-on and
automatically configured for license, IP address
and security policies.
• Scalable, allowing up to 6 Switched Firewall
Directors per switched firewall accelerator for
easy expansion.
• Small Footprint of only 3RU for the base Alteon
Switched Firewall or 1RU for the ASF-5100 series
• A single GUI is used to manage both the Switched
Firewall Accelerator and the Switched Firewall
Director
• Switch and Director logs centrally monitored
• VLAN and 802.1Q tagging support allowing
for 256 DMZs
• Customers need not trade off performance
for security
84
Alteon Switched Firewall (ASF)
Throughput
Session
connections/s
Accelerated
Sessions
Total Sessions
Layer 3 Protocols
Virtual Firewalls
VLANs/IEEE 802.1Q
Health Checks
Multi-Link
Trunking
Plug and Play
Single Image
Upgrade
Scalability
High Availability
10/100 Ports
Gigabit Ethernet
Ports
Rack Units
ASF 5308
600 Mb/s
5,500 - up to
32K
40,000
500,000
OSPF
Yes - up to 100
Yes - up to 242
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Active-Active
9
1
3
ASF 5408
600 Mbps
5,500 - up to
32K
170,000
500,000
OSPF
Yes - up to 100
Yes - up to 242
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Active-Active
9
1
3
ASF 5610
4.2 Gbps
5,500 - up to
32K
170,000
1,000,000
OSPF
Yes - up to 100
Yes - up to 242
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Active-Active
9
9
3
ASF 5710
4.2 Gbps
5,500 - up to
32K
500,000
1,000,000
OSPF
Yes - up to 100
Yes - up to 242
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Active-Active
9
9
3
Ordering Information
For further information, please contact your local Nortel Networks representative.