Check Point VPN-1 Accelerator Card II

Check Point VPN-1 Accelerator Card II ... traffic grows, performance becomes an important concern. The VPN must secure network communications without slowing it down. The computationally intensive tasks required for encryption can exhaust host CPU resources, causing the VPN gateway to become a performance bottleneck.

Check Point meets the performance challenge with the VPN-1 Accelerator Card II. This PCI compatible card offloads processor intensive cryptographic operations from the host CPU of a VPN Gateway, to a dedicated processor on the card itself. The card not only extends the throughput capabilities of VPN-1 gateway solutions, but it also frees host CPU resources to concentrate on other security tasks. The VPN-1 Accelerator Card II extends the performance of a single VPN-1 Gateway to up to 100 Mbps. It provides full plug and play support with VPN-1. Software drivers are installed as part of the VPN-1 installation process, providing seamless integration with Check Point's VPN solution. The card is administered directly by the gateway and can be installed on new or existing VPN-1 gateways with no reconfiguration. In addition, auto-detection of hardware failures prompts VPN-1 to bypass hardware encryption facilities to utilize software encryption capabilities of the gateway. This exceptional level of fault tolerance guarantees VPN up-time.