R82 for Spark SMB gateways?

[gg_fga]

Hello,

What is planned in the SMB gateway roadmap?

In parallel with the work in progress on version R82 for quantum enterprise appliances, is there any adaptation work in progress for SMBs?

If so, when?

Kind regards,

[Chris_Atkinson · Accepted solution]

The next release for Spark will be R81.10.15 which is currently in EA.

Please consult with your local SE to join the EA or for further information.

[the_rock]

As Chris said, probably chat with your local SE would be best idea.

Andy

[PhoneBoy]

I wouldn't expect to see an R82-based release for Quantum Spark appliances until next year.
As Chris said, the next planned release is R81.10.15, which is in EA.

[Amir_Erman · Accepted solution]

Hi, 

Next SPARK appliance line plan to run R82 code base

We also plan R82 SMB firmware , to allow upgrade from R81.10.x; We will explore customers for EA purpose; Please make sure to participate in EA

SMB R81.10.05 firmware is in EA;  Please make sure to participate in EA

What are R82 features that interest this forum? 

Amir

[the_rock]

@Amir_Erman I had customer ask me if next major release for SMB appliances may be more like regular Gaia or are commands going to stay more less the same?

Best,

Andy

[Amir_Erman]

Next Gaia embedded version will stay the same from CLI perspective

Yet, is similarity with regular Gaia is crucial to your customer, I suggest you contact solution center for this

[the_rock]

K, fair enough!

[gg_fga]

Hello,

Thanks for the information, it's good news that SMBs are following!

For suggestions, just follow the security features by adapting them to the size of the appliances.

And above all, it would be nice to have instant push policies. Centrally managed is so slow!

Kind regards,

[G_W_Albrecht]

SMBs use policy pull, so pushing policies from Dashboard only triggers a pull from SMB. This comes handy when managing a large numbert of SMBs...

[Mikael]

Hello,

I have a customer managing a fleet of SPARK-devices primarily via a satelite network.

One feature that we'd like to see is a very limited GUI, i.e. a gui that is focused on being managed via a high latency, low bandwith network.

On CPX there was also a mention of "New SPARK OS" with "Integrated SD-WAN". 

How are these moving along? Locally configured SD-WAN would be really useful for this customer!

Cheers

[G_W_Albrecht]

Why not use CLI instead of SMB GUI ? When real-time monitoring is not needed, you can do all configuration here.

SD-WAN is included in current recommended version: https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/SMB_R81.10.X/AdminGuides_Locally_Managed/EN/Content/Topics/SD-W...

[Mikael]

It's a matter of taste I suppose 🙂 Everything is not always as straight forward in CLI as in WebUI.

But sure that's an option.

[Amir_Ayalon]

Hi

Locally managed SD-WAN in already available in R81.10.10.

https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk181080

As for Low bandwidth management, have you tried managing the GW's via the Spark Management ?

[Mikael]

Sure, they were hoping for a locally (on-device) configured option of SD-WAN to avoid the connection to "cloud"...

All gateways are managed through their regular on-prem SmartCenter...