The ultimate firewall solution for enterprise data centers.
Designed with the Enterprise Data Center in mind, the PE650 is Venture Technologies' flagship product within the Firewall Bundle product line. The PE650 integrates best-in-class networking capabilities with a fully functional version of the Check Point FireWall-1. The PE650 is appropriate for any application that requires the utmost in throughput, performance, and the highest level of system availability.

This firewall bundle meets the needs of ISPs, data centers, and other carrier class applications and delivers a new level of integrated security by combining a high degree of serviceability, availability, scalability, and performance.

Secure Enterprise Firewalling
The PE650 is an integrated hardware/software solution that is tuned specifically to run Check Point's FireWall-1. By taking advantage of the high performance architecture of the Nokia IP650 firewall/ router appliance platform, the PE650 Firewall Bundle packs in more benefits than other platforms running FireWall-1, including enhanced security, performance, high availability, reliability, manageability, and routing.  

The PE650 also leverages the full capabilities of FireWall-1's Stateful Inspection software, the de facto standard for network security, invented and patented by Check Point. Stateful Inspection provides full application-layer awareness without requiring a separate proxy for every Internet service and protocol. This provides unparalleled performance, scalability, and the ability to support new and custom applications and services quickly and easily.

High-Performance Router Platform
The PE650 integrates Nokia's IP650 firewall/router appliance platform. This platform is bundled with a quad 10/100 Ethernet card, a T1 CSU/DSU card, and a hot-swappable, load-sharing redundant power supply. This configuration leaves three slots available for future expansion.

Performance
Because it's engineered specifically to run Check Point FireWall-1, Nokia's IPSO makes the most of the hardware's capabilities, delivering a packet-forwarding rate of over 140Mbps – a speed that leaves all but the highest performing multiprocessor UNIX hosts behind.

High Availability
To ensure high-availability, the PE650's Nokia IPSO utilizes Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), which enhances the fail-over capabilities of FireWall-1. By using shared IP and MAC addresses on two or more Nokia platforms, computers on the network automatically fail-over to a backup fire-wall in the event of network failure. With multiple shared addresses, network administrators can do load balancing among multiple firewalls – an enhancement to FireWall-1 not found in other platforms.

Reliability
Unlike a general purpose operating system, the only purpose of the IPSO software is to support FireWall-1, ensuring Nokia's commitment to maintain integration between IPSO and FireWall-1. Likewise, Check Point is equally committed to providing a premium level of support for the Nokia platforms. Beyond its excellent software reliability, the Nokia IP650 includes hardware fault tolerance and serviceability. The redundant load balancing power supply is fault tolerant and the fan tray and interface cards are hot-swappable. These combined features greatly enhance the availability of the FW1-PE650 Bundle.

Manageability
By utilizing the intuitive Voyager® interface, the PE650 appliance platform is fully manageable through a Web browser. This innovation allows the platform to be securely managed from anywhere in the network. The PE650 can also be managed through a serial cable connected to its console port via integrated analog modem or through telnet and secure shell (SSH – encrypted telnet). The high degree of manageability of this platform virtually eliminates the need to physically travel to the equipment after initial installation.

Routing
The Nokia IPSO software adds full router functionality (including upgrade capability for BGP), allowing the PE650 FireWall Bundle to fully integrate into any network environment. The ability to add many different types of interfaces after installation, including T1 and T3, only adds to its versatility. In fact, the inclusion of a T1 interface to the PE650 eliminates the need to front-end the firewall with a router, which is necessary with most other firewall platforms.

Industry-Leading Maintenance and Support
The PE650 comes bundled with a premium level of manufacturer support for one year after installation through the Platinum Support Program. The bundle includes software subscription and updates for a full year for both the Nokia IPSO and Check Point's FireWall-1, advanced hardware replacement, 24/7 phone support, online knowledge-base access, online incident tracking, and priority service with a guaranteed priority response time. Most importantly, the Platinum Support Program includes the assignment of a named support engineer who will take personal responsibility for your network's problem resolution. Platinum Support can be renewed annually.

Installation and Configuration Expertise
Recognized by the industry as experts in solution design, integration, and implementation, the members of Venture Technologies' Network Security Practice offer an unparalleled level of expertise and experience in the subtleties of network security. This is particularly important considering that nearly all firewall breaches occur because of misconfiguration rather than by any failure in the firewall itself. All Venture Technologies Firewall Bundles and enhancement packages fully tested and installed on your site by the security engineers of Venture Technologies' Network Security Practice.