Safire makes it easy to accurately measure the performance of enterprise firewalls. Using traffic that can match the unique traffic profile in your network, Safire pinpoints performance bottlenecks in simple-to-understand graphs, clearly revealing how features like antivirus, appcontrol, IPS and SSL decryption impact throughput.

Firewalls are designed to improve network security when segmenting corporate LANs. Like most security solutions, the challenge is preventing the added security from impacting LAN performance. Each of the advanced security functions offered by firewalls has a performance penalty. Combined, these features can easily reduce performance 90%! Slowing the network down to 10% of its true potential means frustrated users and reduced business performance.

Up until now there has been no simple, cost-effective solution to this problem. Firewalls are complex devices. Obtaining accurate and standardized performance specifications from firewall vendors can be hard. And as the topology of every LAN is different, and the type of traffic varies dramatically from company to company, IT managers often struggle to accurately characterize the performance of their firewall. This is true both during the initial purchasing process, as well as after the firewall has been deployed. Firmware updates and major infrastructure changes, such as link speed upgrade, network topology modifications and rolling out new applications, will also impact a firewall’s performance.

Up until now, the only way to comprehensively address this issue has been to invest in complex and expensive test solutions and consultants that often cost more than the firewall itself.

Physical Specifications

SafireCompact is suitable for desktop use: