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NetScreen Raises the Bar with Next-Generation Integrated Network
Security Platform
Alleviates Performance and Network Compromises Forced by Competing Solutions;
Provides Scalability to Address Evolving Threats
SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Continuing its consistent
track record of introducing ground-breaking security solutions, NetScreen
Technologies, Inc. today announced availability of the NetScreen-ISG 2000, the
industry's first integrated security gateway uniquely designed to provide
best-of-breed perimeter security functionality protecting against network- and
application-level threats, while optimizing performance and decreasing
complexity of enterprise and carrier networks.
Unlike other security solution developers' integration approaches that can force
customers to make performance and network compromises, NetScreen's new
purpose-built system with a modular design and a unique processing architecture
-- including NetScreen's new fourth-generation Application Specific Integrated
Circuit (ASIC) -- integrates firewall and virtual private network (VPN)
technologies and will be able to support integrated intrusion detection and
prevention (IDP) functionality. As a result, the NetScreen-ISG 2000 provides
exceptional performance as well as flexibility and scalability to combat today's
and tomorrow's sophisticated threats.
The NetScreen-ISG 2000 is ideal for enterprises, carriers and data center
operators struggling to efficiently address theincreasing volume and
sophistication of attacks that are threatening their networks while maintaining
performance and balancing limited IT resources and budgets.
"There is an overriding trend to integrate many security functions into fewer
devices; however, without the right design and combination of functionality,
there can be serious network performance and management drawbacks," said Jeff
Wilson principal analyst at Infonetics Research. "When Netscreen approached
this problem, they were very conscious of the integration pitfalls;
NetScreen-ISG 2000 is a great example of the successful marriage of management,
performance, and feature integration."
Unique Processing Architecture
The NetScreen-ISG 2000, capable of 2 Gbps firewall and 1 Gbps 3DES/AES IPSec VPN
performance, supports up to 8 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, 28 Fast Ethernet
interfaces, or a combination of both. It also can support up to 10,000 VPN
tunnels, 512,000 concurrent sessions and 30,000 new sessions per second. This
performance acceleration is achieved by leveraging a unique combination of
flexible processing power that includes dual GHz Central Processing Units
(CPUs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and NetScreen's next-generation
ASIC, the GigaScreen3 -- the industry's first programmable ASIC to perform
Gigabit-speed, hardware-accelerated AES and 3DES encryption and multi-Gigabit
firewall inspection for any packet size.
Doubling the performance from its previous generation ASIC, NetScreen's newest
ASIC delivers up to 3 million packets per second (pps) for firewall processing
and 1.5 million pps encryption processing with low latency throughput at any
packet size, which is critical for complex applications like Voice over IP
(VoIP). Additionally, multiple embedded processors accelerate features such as
Denial of Service protection and encryption fragmentation, while providing a
means of integrating additional features through future software updates.
Further, the NetScreen-ISG 2000 system architecture is uniquely designed to
provide wirespeed firewall and VPN packet processing while simultaneously
performing policy-based redirection of selected sessions to specific security
modules for additional security processing. The GigaScreen3 ASIC can balance
sessions across up to three security modules, each with dual GHz CPUs, an FPGA
and memory to run the security applications, such as intrusion detection and
prevention.
In addition to the unique design of the system, NetScreen-ISG 2000 customers can
benefit from the security and networking capabilities built into NetScreen's
operating software, ScreenOS, including Deep Inspection firewall technology,
dynamic route-based VPN and virtualization capabilities, as well as support for
BGP, RIPv2 and OSPF routing protocols that can ease deployment in many complex
environments. Also, active/active and active/passive High Availability (HA)
options can eliminate a single point of failure and maximize network
connectivity and productivity.
"The new, highly scalable NetScreen-ISG 2000 platform represents a new class of
product designed to address sophisticated network- and application- level
attacks while enabling optimal network performance and minimizing operational
overhead," said David Flynn, vice president of marketing for NetScreen. "Its
unique processing architecture and modular design are critical to achieving
scalable performance and security functionality that can help protect networks
now and into the future."
Availability
The NetScreen-ISG 2000 is available now. NetScreen-Security Manager is expected
to support the NetScreen-ISG 2000 later this quarter and the NetScreen IDP
security module is expected to be available in the second half of 2004.
For more information about NetScreen products, visit: http://www.netscreen.com/
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About NetScreen Technologies
NetScreen Technologies, Inc. is a leading developer of network security and
access solutions for enterprises and carriers worldwide. NetScreen's solutions
offer customers multiple layers of network and application-level protection in
purpose-built appliances and systems that meet customers' security, performance
and total cost of ownership objectives. NetScreen is located at 805 11th Ave.,
Sunnyvale, CA, 94089. More information on NetScreen's products can be found at
http://www.netscreen.com/ or by calling toll free at 1-800-638-8296.
NOTE: NetScreen,GigaScreen and the NetScreen logo are trademarks of NetScreen
Technologies, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Other trademarks
are the property of their respective owners.
This press release contains forward-looking statements about events and
circumstances that have not yet occurred. For example, words such as "will,"
"expects," "enabling," "provide," "continue,"and "allows," or other statements
in the future tense, are forward-looking statements. Actual outcomes and results
may differ materially from expectations in this press release due to a number of
risks and uncertainties. Such risks and uncertainties include whether the market
for security products will grow as projected, if at all, whether demand for
NetScreen products will continue, whether new products, if and when introduced,
will be successful and whether products will perform as expected.
DATASOURCE: NetScreen Technologies, Inc.
CONTACT: Jennifer Jennings, +1-408-543-8243, or ,
or Heather C. Lowles, +1-408-543-4136, or , both of
NetScreen Technologies, Inc.
Web site: http://www.netscreen.com/