Technical Details for Nortel Alteon Switched Firewall 6414

Nortel Alteon Switched Firewall 6414 ... heightened corporate threat environment. The new platform offers improved port density and the processing power to perform application-layer inspection while ensuring firewall performance never impacts network throughput, even under the most demanding conditions, e.g., processing traffic with small packet sizes.

Representing the evolution of Nortel Networks leading-edge "switch-accelerated firewalls, " the ASF 6414 features an Accelerator platform based on the Alteon Application Switch. It offers integrated Layer 4-7 content filtering, comprehensive Dos protection, and IDS load balancing within the Accelerator OS, along with the Layer 2-7 security provided by the Check Point NG with Application Intelligence stateful inspection engine.