[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [FW1] RE: Nokia/Check Point/SolutionPaq
Just one small correction. You can optionally install an additional quad card on the IP330 which gives you a total of 7 not a limitation of 3 nics. Just my .02 cents since I work with them day in and day out :0) -- Juan Concepcion Network Security Consultant [email protected] On 2001.07.18 14:56 Mark Decker wrote: > > Hi Jason, > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Costomiris > >Let's see, each vendor realized that they were much better at selling > >their own products than the other guy's stuff, so they fixed it. Yeah, > >that sounds terrible. Wake up. You forgot to mention that Nokia and > >CP signed a 2-year agreement when the last agreement expired. As a > >rule, CP never signs anything longer than one year. > > I don't understand the defensive tone of your reply. It would appear > you somehow misinterpreted my comments as a slam against Nokia, which > they are certainly not intended to be. Nokia makes fine products, and > is still a partner of CP. I was merely trying to dispel rumors of a > "war" between the companies and make a statement of the facts of the > current relationship. As I understand it, although Nokia and CP may > have signed another agreement, the terms are different and the new > agreement does not provide an exclusive distribution arrangement for > FW-1/VPN-1 appliances similar to what they had in the past. I won't > speculate on the reasons for this change in the relationship, since I > wasn't at the contract negotiations. ;-) Regardless of their reasons > for doing so, CP has now opened up the CP-based appliance market and > leveled the playing field for other vendors through its OPSEC appliance > program. In my mind, that's a positive thing. While Nokia is good, > having a choice is better. > > >A lot of competition? From Compaq? A Compaq pre-sales engineer shared > >with me that a packed-out DL320 (what they sell as the SolutionPaq) > >does about 90 Mbps in FW1 performance tests. It only costs about 15% > less > >than an IP330, but with the IP330 testing at 130 Mbps is nearly 50% > >faster than the DL320. Oh by the way, the DL320 has a 1Ghz P-III to > >match up against then AMD K6-2/400... > > Our internal testing results show the Compaq box does better than you > describe vs. the IP330. We found that a base DL320 SolutionPaq has much > faster throughput than the base IP330 in identical environments. (BTW, > you can put up to 2G of RAM in the SolutionPaq, and up to 6 NICs, while > the IP330 is a fixed config with 256MB RAM and 3 NICs.) With FLOWS > enabled on the Nokia, the Nokia throughput goes up significantly, but I > understand there are still a few drawbacks to using FLOWS (admittedly, > not my area of expertise, so forgive me if I've overstated the FLOWS > issue; perhaps someone else can elaborate). Personally, I'd like to see > an independent magazine do an apples-to-apples benchmark test of > similarly configured DL320 vs IP330, and then see how they fare. In any > case, the vast majority of IP330s serve T3 circuits or smaller, so it > hardly matters as long as they can both do >45Mbps. People with an OC-3 > are likely buying a bigger box anyway. > > As far as price goes, the base IP330 lists at $4,950, while the base > DL320 SolutionPaq lists at $3,249. I'm no math whiz, but I believe > that's more than 1/3 less expensive, rather than only 15%. If buying > 100 units for all your branch offices, that's a recession-friendly > savings of over $170,000. :-) > > Best regards, > > Mark L. Decker > Rainfinity - High Availability for E-Business >> [email protected] > > > > > ================================================================================ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions > at > http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > ================================================================================ > > ================================================================================ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================================================
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