Celestix WSA8000

Celestix WSA8000 ... security and web acceleration. Running Microsoft IAG Server 2007, WSA8000 provides superior security, high availability, manageability, GigE port density and performance, giving customers a competitively priced, high-end appliance with unprecedented performance and port headroom for this class of system.

The WSA8000 is based on a robust Celestix 2U rack hardware platform, producing an extremely fast and efficient appliance with two powerful Intel Xeon Quad Core class CPU running in excess of 2.4GHz, 4GB of RAM, two hot swappable 73GB of hard drive in RAID 1 configuration. The Celestix WSA8000 has power redundancy, four auto-sensing 100/1000 Ethernet ports adding a degree of versatility not commonly found in a security appliance.

The WSA is a comprehensive, high-performance application access and security appliance designed to help balance the tensions between security, application functionality and broad access. With the benefits of both a network-layer firewall and a full SSL VPN, the WSA delivers a policy-driven framework that unifies endpoint security, application access and access control in a highly-scalable platform to satisfy the demands of large-scale and complex environments.

WSA8000 comes bundled with 10 user licenses and can scale to 8,000 concurrent users on a single appliance, supporting up to 64 high-availability nodes in a single array, and enables administrators to define complex authentication schemas, session residue shredding configurations and custom endpoint compliance requirements. The platform supports multiple portals on a single gateway, enabling administrators to customize the user experience and create specific policy configurations for each portal.