Harmony Endpoint bandwidth consumption

[MikeB]

Hi CheckMates,

Is there any documentation or information on the estimated bandwidth consumption of Harmony Endpoint when the management is in the cloud?

I know it may depend on several factors or the configured policy, but it would be useful to have some referential data based on the experience they may have for 1000 endpoints deployed.

[PhoneBoy]

The largest poles in the tent by far are:

• Signature updates for AV (though these can come from the cloud)
• Updates to the Endpoint client 

Beyond that, the data should be...fairly minimal.
That said, I haven't seen any concrete numbers.

[MikeB]

Thanks PhoneBoy,

It would be very valuable to know some concrete or referential numbers to inform customers and take into consideration at the time of planning and implementation. Our customers always ask about the impact of bandwidth consumption they may have.

[MikeB]

I would appreciate it if someone from Check Point has more complete information on this subject.

having a SK would be ideal!

[PhoneBoy]

As often as I've seen this question asked, I've never actually heard anyone say lack of bandwidth was an actual issue.

[MikeB]

well, in my country bandwidth is usually limited by several factors (we have a client with more than 4000 agents in one site that have only one asynchronous internet link of 300 mbps) so this question becomes recurrent because of the concern that they can saturate or affect the normal navigation of users, so this information becomes very necessary to perform a proper sizing and planning.

[PhoneBoy]

If there are any concerns about bandwidth, you can deploy one or more "supernodes" to minimize the bandwidth usage. 
See: https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk171703 
As for what a single client uses, I have not seen any numbers on this.
I imagine it would be entirely dependent on the blades activated and the number of events.