SonicWALL NSA 240 Appliance

Overview:

SonicWALL NSA Series: Next Generation Unified Threat Management Protection

• SonicWALL’s next generation security
• Scalable multi-core hardware and reassembly free deep packet inspection
• Stateful high availability and load balancing features
• Advanced state-of-the-art performance and lowered TCO
• Advanced routing services and networking features
• Standards-based Voice over IP (VoIP)
• Secure distributed wireless LAN services
• Onboard Quality of Service (QoS)

Organizations of all sizes depend on their networks to access internal and external mission-critical applications. As advances in networking continue to provide tremendous benefit to organizations, they are increasingly challenged by sophisticated and financially-motivated attacks designed to disrupt communications, degrade performance and compromise data.

Malicious attacks penetrate outdated stateful packet inspection firewalls by exploiting higher network levels. Point products add layers of security, but are costly, difficult to manage, limited in controlling network misuse and ineffective against the latest multipronged attacks. The SonicWALL NSA Series revolutionizes network security, utilizing a breakthrough multi-core design and Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection™ (RFDPI), offering complete protection without compromising network performance.

The SonicWALL® Network Security Appliance (NSA) Series overcomes the limitations of existing security solutions by scanning the entirety of each packet for current internal and external threats in real time. Built on a high-speed multi-core processing platform, the NSA Series enables deep packet inspection without adversely impacting the performance of mission-critical networks and applications.

The NSA Series applies next-generation Unified Threat Management (UTM) against a comprehensive array of attacks, combining intrusion prevention, anti-virus and antispyware with the application-level control of SonicWALL Application Firewall. With advanced routing, stateful high-availability and high-speed VPN technology, the NSA Series adds security, reliability, functionality and productivity to branch offices, central sites and distributed mid-enterprise networks, while minimizing cost and complexity.

Comprised of the SonicWALL® NSA 240, NSA 2400, NSA 3500, and NSA 4500, the NSA Series offers a scalable range of solutions designed to meet the network security needs of any organization.

Features & Benefits:

Best-in-Class Threat Protection:

1. SonicWALL deep packet inspection protects against network risks such as viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware, phishing attacks, emerging threats and Internet misuse. Application Firewall adds highly-configurable controls to prevent data leakage and manage bandwidth at the application level.
2. The SonicWALL Reaseembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection (RFDPI) technology utilizes SonicWALL’s multi-core architecture to scan packets in real-time without stalling traffic in memory. This functionality allows threats to be identified and eliminated over unlimited file sizes and unrestricted concurrent connections, without interruption.
3. The Network Security Appliance Series provides dynamic network protection through continuous, automated security updates, protecting against emerging and evolving threats, without requiring any administrator intervention.

• SonicWALL’s next generation security incorporates a new level of UTM that integrates intrusion prevention, gateway anti-virus and anti-spyware and features the Application Firewall suite of configurable tools to prevent data leakage and offer granular application control.
• Scalable multi-core hardware and reassembly free deep packet inspection scans and eliminates threats of unlimited file sizes, and provides virtually unrestricted concurrent connections with uncompromising speed.
• Stateful high availability and load balancing features in SonicOS 5.0 Enhanced maximize total network bandwidth and maintain seamless network uptime, delivering uninterrupted access to mission-critical resources, and ensuring that VPN tunnels and other network traffic will not be interrupted in the event of a failover.
• Advanced state-of-the-art performance and lowered TCO are achieved by using the processing power of multiple cores in unison to dramatically increase throughput and provide simultaneous inspection capabilities, while lowering power consumption.
• Advanced routing services and networking features incorporate advanced networking and security technology including 802.1q VLANs, WAN/WAN failover, zone and object-based management, load balancing, advanced NAT modes and more, providing granular configuration flexibility and comprehensive protection at the administrator’s discretion.
• Standards-based Voice over IP (VoIP) capabilities provide the highest levels of security for every element of the VoIP infrastructure, from communications equipment to VoIP-ready devices such as SIP Proxies, H.323 Gatekeepers and Call Servers.
• Secure distributed wireless LAN services enable the appliance to function as a secure wireless switch and controller that automatically detects and configures SonicPoints,™ SonicWALL wireless access points, for secure remote access in distributed network environments.
• Onboard Quality of Service (QoS) features use industry standard 802.1p and Differentiated Services Code Points (DSCP) Class of Service (CoS) designators to provide powerful and flexible bandwidth management that is vital for Voice over IP, multimedia content and business critical applications.

Flexible, Customizable Deployment Options - NSA Series At-A-Glance:

Every SonicWALL Network Security Appliance solution delivers next generation United Threat Management protection, utilizing a breakthrough multi-core hardware design and Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection for internal and external network protection without compromising network performance. Each NSA Series product combines high-speed intrusion prevention, file and content inspection, and powerful Application Firewall controls with an extensive array of advanced networking and flexible configuration features. The NSA Series offers an accessible, affordable platform that is easy to deploy and manage in a wide variety of corporate, branch office and distributed network environments.

Specifications:

^Notes:
1 Testing Methodologies: Maximum performance based on RFC 2544 (for firewall). Actual performance may vary depending on network conditions and activated services. VPN throughput UDP traffic at 1418 byte packet size adhering to RFC 2544. UTM performance is based on HTTP tests run on the Spirent Avalanche/Reflector.
** Only with the NSA 240 Series Stateful HA and Expansion Upgrade

Documentation:

 SonicWALL NSA Series Datasheet (.PDF)