New Medium Business Appliance with 10G

[Benedikt_Weissl]

Hello everybody,

are there any plans to release a entry level small/medium business appliance with affordable 10G Interfaces? Something to compete with a Sophos XG210 or FG50X?

[G_W_Albrecht]

If you do compare the appliance models, you will find that the smallest appliance that can be equipped with 10GB IFs is the 5600 - it has 20.4 Gbps Firewall and 2.78 Gbps Threat Prevention Throughput. Any smaller one has not enough resources to justify - if the 1400 would be equipped with a 10GB IF, throughput would still be 1Gbps Firewall and 450 Mbps Threat Prevention Throughput.

[PhoneBoy]

At what throughput?
Just because an appliance has 10G interfaces doesn't mean you'll get 10G of throughput.
Unless the platform does more than 1GB of throughout, 10G connectivity doesn't make a ton of sense.

In any case, we do have some newer 1500 series appliances coming but not sure they'll support 10G.