Cisco has doubled the speed of its intrusion-prevention sensor, the Cisco IPS 4270, boosting the rate at which it checks rich-media traffic.
According to a story by Network World's Tim Greene: Cisco uses a new rating system to describe the throughput of the device, giving it a speed for rich-media traffic and a separate rating for transactional traffic. IPS 4270 puts out 4Gbps for media-rich traffic and 2Gbps for highly transactional environments, the company says. It supports as many as 20,000 transactions per second. The ratings for the previous top-end IPS, the IPS 4260, is 2Gbps for media-rich and 1Gbps for transactional environments, the company says.
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Not that fast...........
Still not as fast as Tiping Point. Will Cisco ever catch up to the innovators in the security appliance space?
For $90K you could buy 6 Bivio 7500's and still have change...
Bivio's 7500 has performance numbers that make the Cisco box look like it's standing still. We have several Security software firms that are partnered with us. We also won the Red Herring 100 2007 award for most innovative product. Don't waste your money on Cisco's name brand. Check out the Bivio product line.
maybe as a wire, but when
maybe as a wire, but when you turn on TP's detection engines and add the useful signatures, your performance slows to a crawl. I want to hear more from Cisco.