WatchGuard VClass

Firebox® Vclass brings high speed network security to medium-sized businesses, remote offices, service providers, and data centres.  Providing users secure, IPSec compliant VPN connections, and ensure consistent infrastructure security for your network with multi-tenant security management, VPN tunnel switching, server load balancing and Quality of Service (QoS).

Firebox Vclass Features and Benefits

Intrusion Prevention Capability

• Inspects and filters Application layer 7 traffic
• Dynamically blocks traffic from identified attackers
• Supplies flexible configuration options for customized security  

  policies

High-Speed Custom Security ASIC Processor

• Accelerate firewall, VPN, NAT, and QoS functionalities.
• Get additional feature flexibility with 4 embedded RISC

  processors.
• Meet the needs of your most demanding, evolving network

  security applications.
 

Scalability

• Support up to 40,000 IPSec VPN tunnels.
• Server Load Balancing increases traffic efficiency by distributing

  traffic across your server farm.
• Tunnel switching increases VPN scalability by consolidating VPN

   traffic and simplifying hub-and-spoke VPN management.


Networking Features

• High Availability Active/Passive. Increase network and Web site

  accessibility by installing a second same-model Firebox Vclass

  appliance.
• High Availability Active/Active. Virtually doubles throughput,

  providing stateful failover for firewall and VPN connections.
• Quality of Service (QoS). Weighted fair queuing, port shaping,

  and traffic shaping provide control of a variety of networked

  applications and traffic types.
• Server Load Balancing. Traffic matching defined policies is

  automatically routed to a specific server and then balanced

  between available servers, allowing content sharing and

  improving network and server performance.
 

Secure, Java-Based Management

• WatchGuard® Vcontroller™. Robust software application

  providing an added layer of security when managing and

  configuring site-to-site and site-to-remote VPN locations.
• WatchGuard® CPM (Central Policy Manager). Powerful, highly

  scalable network management platform designed to simplify

  large-scale deployment and enforcement. (Optional)
 

WG Firebox VClass Brochure (337kb)