NetScreen Releases its Next Gen Security Gateway

NetScreen Technologies released an integrated security gateway designed to provide perimeter security functionality and protect against network- and application-level threats in enterprise and carrier networks. the NetScreen-ISG 2000, which uses the company's new fourth-generation ASIC, integrates firewall and VPN capabilities and will be able to support integrated intrusion detection and prevention (IDP) functionality. The 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 applications such as 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.



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. http://www.netscreen.comIn February 2004, Juniper Networks agreed to acquire to NetScreen Technologies in a stock for stock merger valued at approximately $4 billion based on closing stock prices for 06-Feb-2004.