Recently I was fortunate to catch the SonicWall SuperMassive Roadshow as it passed through Sydney and it definitely was a sign of big things, well massive things, to come from the growing firewall vendor.
So what is the SuperMassive? The E10800 is a SonicWall, a network firewall with 64GB ram that can filter data through it’s deep packet inspection firewall, the same one on every SonicWall, at 40 GBPs (yes, that is 40 gigabytes per second, and they will make a bigger one if you want).
Say your business grows.. I mean really grows, well this SonicWall can handle 80,000 site to site VPN tunnels, 16,000 VPN clients and 512 VLANs.
It’s about twice the size of your server.
Why so super massive? The SuperMassive was the culmination of a number of decisions at SonicWall. A change in architecture to a different processor a few years ago, new partnerships and mergers and the ability to build a firewall that could offer deep packet inspection with performance by using cores. These days our phones are dual core, our servers are at least quad core, so it made sense. Add to this an idea to build something huge by adding more cores, partly to prove they could and show off, and secondly to see what it really could do.
Don’t believe it? 5km under the ocean off the coast of Hawaii is a SuperMassive SonicWall inspecting traffic on an undersea cable.
What does this mean to my business? Well, the SuperMassive is a SonicWall, I mean it has the same software and web interface, the same features, functionality and services, and the same reliability, just a lot more grunt than every other SonicWall. The SupperMassive is a demonstration of why you should be using a SonicWall. Performance, Security, Reliability, Configurability, and now, Scalability, it has them all.
We use SonicWall devices to provide firewall and intrustion protection, routing for multiple ISPs or networks, content filtering, Viewpoint Reporting, site to site VPNs, 3G, Wireless networks, keep alive and failover protection for internet failures because they just work and that provides a level of security for us and our clients.
And the SuperMassive has the same powerful yet easily configurable web console and ViewPoint reporting console, that is standard across all models. That means any I Know IT engineer will happily install your next SuperMassive when you are ready for it, or maybe we should start a bit smaller.
Given that in Australia you might get 10Mbps internet or 100Mbps if you splash out and your office network is probably a combination of up to 300Mpbs wireless and 1GB data it is unlikely you will need anything so big yet.
You can get a TZ-210 today and enjoy protection for your medium sized office and when you grow, I mean really grow, we can load those settings into your E10800 ( or any model in between) and you can control your empire while continuing to enjoy the performance and security you expect from your firewall. And there are plenty of non massive Sonicwall models between the TZ range and the SuperMassive to help support those 80,000 sites of various sizes that you want to have so you can justify buying a SuperMassive.
And you know you want a SuperMassive just because it is the Bugatti or Ferrari of the firewall industry, it’s got a cool name, real street cred and yours would be the biggest in the street.
