Cloud Firewalling brings about hypervisor-specific optimisations, resulting in far greater performance at significantly reduced expenditure.
The built-in high availability of the CronoSphere platform extends to NSX, so customers can be assured of round-the-clock protection and peace of mind against hardware failure.
Compare the performance of our NSX firewalling against popular Cisco Firewalls:
ASA 5505
This is offered by many hosting providers as a standard deployment entry level firewall. Whilst being relatively cheap, it is extremely limited in terms of performance and traffic handling.
ASA 5555-X
This firewall offers the same throughput as our VCNS offering, however it's a £10,000 appliance and you need to purchase two for high availability!
A comparison of performance between VCNS and hardware firewalls
| |
VMware NSX |
Cisco ASA 5505 |
Cisco ASA 5555-X |
| Firewall Performance |
9.7 Gbit |
150 Mbit |
4 Gbit |
| Connections per second |
50,000 |
4,000 |
50,000 |
| Concurrent Sessions |
1,000,000 |
25,000 |
1,000,000 |
| IPsec VPN Throughput |
2 Gbit |
100 Mbit |
700 Mbit |
The dedicated Cisco devices are limited by physical network connections whereas the integrated VMware NSX firewalling runs at a hypervisor level and the 10 Gbit underlying network fabric.
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