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Product Review:  Corrent S3500 TurboCard

Main 1. Photos 2. Features 3. Licensing 4. Installation
5. Putting It To Work 6. Under The Hood 7. Conclusions 8. Pricing
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7. Conclusions:

The Corrent S3500 TurboCard, designed in cooperation with Check Point, provides significant hardware and logic-based acceleration for Firewall-1/VPN-1.  It connects to the firewall on your Enforcement Module using the SecureXL API and is a faster hardware replacement for PerformancePack.  It runs on the standard SecurePlatform operating system, is simple to install and manage, and basically just works quietly behind the scenes to fastlane connections, off-load cryptographic computations and provide other pre-firewall intelligent packet screening.

It can also help speed traffic by efficiently dropping packets with the Drop Acceleration and Template Quota features.  During a DoS attack, it can fastlane acceptable traffic through the card without sending it up to an overtaxed CPU.

Overall, it provides an easy-to-install hardware-accelerated platform for users needing multi-Gigabit throughput with Firewall-1/VPN-1.

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