3Com presents H3C VPN firewalls

BENGALURU, INDIA: 3Com Corporation introduced the H3C SecPath F-series and H3C SecBlade VPN firewalls.

Intended for enterprise edge, core, data center and high-speed computing environments, the new firewalls come in appliance and blade form factors. The new introductions represent 3Com’s initial product announcements as part of its security strategy to deliver a secure network fabric through unified, high performance, network-embedded security, including its TippingPoint intrusion prevention system (IPS).

The result is this solution that can be managed from the Intelligent Management Center (IMC) console, reducing administrative and deployment overhead.

The H3C SecPath family of stand-alone appliances offers scalable firewall performance from the core to the edge ranging from 200Mbps to 40Gbps. The high-end SecPath F5000-A5 modular security chassis offers line-rate protection for multiple 10Gigabit Ethernet connections. At equivalent performance, the F5000-A5 firewall consumes half the space.

The H3C SecBlade modules are designed for the H3C switch 9500E and H3C switch 7500 E Ethernet chassis, plus the H3C switch 5820 flexible stackable family, and offer 6.5-8Gbps of firewall performance per blade.

Key features include the ability to:

Provide enhanced packet inspection firewall filtering. This allows network and security administrators to control traffic down to the individual IP address and have fine-grain control of all security services to efficiently implement desired security policies.

Create multiple zones and separate firewall instances on the same device. This allows for more granular security policies than traditional firewall devices, and traffic can be zoned among wired/wireless networks, employee/guest LANs or other network segmentation strategies. This greatly simplifies security deployments and contributes significantly to lowering TCO.

Look inside encrypted IPsec VPN tunnels for attacks. This prevents the propagation of exploits between sites and provides protection from risks that can develop when laptop users terminate VPN connections outside of the office.

Prioritize traffic based on policies. This ensures quality of service (QoS) for business-critical applications and appropriate performance for all applications.

Block specific traffic such as Active-X and certain email attachment types, helping ensure high risk traffic is kept off the network.