Nokia and Check Point Surpass Juniper/NetScreen in High-End Security Platform Performance Test
Nokia IP2250 Running Check Point VPN-1 Pro Significantly Outperformed NetScreen-5400 in Third-Party Technical Study
Nokia (NYSE:NOK) today announced that recent tests conducted by The Tolly Group support Nokia's position as the high-end security platform leader. Test results show the IP2250 running market-leading VPN-1® Pro perimeter security solution from Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP) outperformed the competing enterprise-class security platform, the NetScreen-5400, from Juniper Networks Netscreen (Nasdaq: JNPR). The IP2250 offers significantly greater performance in key areas critical to network traffic with more than three times the mixed object code HTTP traffic throughput, up to twice the firewall throughput in industry standard UDP tests, and nearly five times the session rate of the NetScreen-5400. The IP2250 is designed to support up to 800,000 firewall connections, and deliver up to 7.5 Gbps of throughput for large-sized packets. The complete test results can be found at: http://www.tolly.com/docdetail.aspx?DocNumber=204150
The IP2250, running Check Point VPN-1 Pro NG software, was tested against the NetScreen-5400 in a number of areas, including firewall throughput using various packet sizes ranging from the 64-byte packets to 1,518-byte packets, per-second session rate, as well as throughput and TCP connection rate in a mixed object size HTTP traffic load environment. Unlike previous industry tests, this Tolly Group report looks at real-world traffic impacting large enterprises, e-commerce, data look up or ISP-type sites in addition to lab benchmarks.
"High-end flagship security appliances that roughly share the same price points should also offer comparable performance when it comes to throughput, session rate and connections supported under real-world traffic loads," said Kevin Tolly, president/CEO of The Tolly Group. "Considering that there is not a huge chasm in the pricing spread of the devices tested, users will be able to wring greater performance, and ultimately more bang for the buck from the Nokia IP2250."
Test results concluded:
- Nokia's IP2250 offered an average throughput of 1.1 Gbps for a mix of HTTP traffic packet sizes, which was 3.4 times greater than the 328.4 Mbps average offered by the NetScreen-5400.
- The IP2250 achieved almost twice as much zero-loss throughput than the NetScreen 5400 - 7.7 Gbps for large 1518 byte packets versus 4.1 Gbps. The IP2250 also offered more than double the throughput when tested with 512-byte frames (which is more reflective of real-world average packet sizes), achieving 7.3 Gbps versus 3.7 Gbps for the NetScreen firewall.
- The IP2250 sustained 32,900 successful TCP sessions per second, five times the session rate of 6,920 TCP sessions/seconds handled by the NetScreen-5400. This is very important to support enterprises running web sites requiring high volumes of connections.
Nokia and Check Point have enjoyed a successful seven-year partnership leveraging Check Point's VPN/Firewall products on Nokia's proven IP Security platforms. Nokia and Check Point continue to work together to remain strong partners in the $1.6 billion VPN/Firewall market. Both companies anticipate strengthening their joint position in the marketplace, as well as to continue providing strong products that lead the market in security and mobile connectivity, such as the IP2250 using Check Point's VPN-1 Next Generation with Application Intelligence tested in this competitive analysis.
Source: press release
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