NSA E-Class

Enterprise Class Solutions

The E-Class NSA appliances are engineered to be the most scalable, high-performance and reliable multi-function threat appliances in their class. Taking protection to new levels of control is Application Firewall, a set of customizable protection tools that affords administrators precise control over network traffic. To meet the operational reliability enterprise-class networks demand, the E-Class NSA Series incorporates a suite of high availability features at the hardware and system levels to maximize uptime and improve security coverage. The E-Class NSA Series lowers management complexity by providing an extensive array of advanced network configuration features that ease deployment and integration. This makes E-Class NSA an ideal solution for organizations that require high-performance network security deployed across a wide variety of environments.

The E-Class NSA Series delivers:

Enterprise-class deep packet inspection (DPI) and Application Firewall for every packet, every protocol, over every interface

Revolutionary multi-core performance utilizing up to 16 cores for ultra high-speed multi-layer threat protection over both external and internal networks

Ultimate scalability in eliminating threats of unlimited file size and unrestricted concurrent connections by utilizing a Reassembly-Free Deep Packet inspection engine

Dynamically updateable and customizable security defense

Uncompromising business continuity and high availability protection

Flexible yet secure virtual private networking (VPN) technologies include IPSec VPN for site-to-site connectivity and both SSL VPN and IPSec VPN client connectivity to enable secure remote access

Models

NSA E5500

The SonicWALL E-Class Network Security Appliance (NSA) E5500 is high performance, multiservice network security platform engineered to be the work horse of the enterprise network environment. Taking advantage of SonicWALL’s Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection™ engine and an 8-core processor technology providing parallel traffic processing, the NSA E5500 delivers exceptional deep packet inspection performance for the enterprise network environment. The NSA E5500 comes standard with eight gigabit copper Ethernet ports for deployment flexibility and includes a management LCD screen for ease of deployment. This solutions offers enterprise network administrators an array of enterprise networking features, designed to provide lowered management complexity, and unrivalled value.

Number of UTM Cores	8
Stateful Packet Inspection Performance	3.9 GPS
GAV Performance	1.0 Gbps
IPS/ IDP Performance	2.0 Gbps
Full UTM Performance	850 Mbps
VPN Performance (3DES & AES)	1.7 Gbps

NSA E6500

The SonicWALL E-Class Network Security Appliance (NSA) E6500 is engineered to meet the needs of the expanding enterprise network by providing a high performance, scalable, multifunction threat prevention appliance. The NSA E6500 provides enterprise administrators a high performance secure platform to combat the changing threat landscape. Using tools such as Application Firewall network administrators can take advantage of customizable protection tools that empower network administrator’s precise control and inspection over network traffic. The NSA E6500 comes standard with eight gigabit copper Ethernet ports for deployment flexibility and includes a management LCD screen for ease of deployment.

 

Number of UTM Cores	16
Stateful Packet Inspection Performance	5 Gbps
GAV Performance	1.69 Gbps
IPS/ IDP Performance	2.3 Gbps
Full UTM Performance	1.59 Gbps
VPN Performance (3DES & AES)	2.7 Gbps

 

NSA E7500

The SonicWALL E-Class Network Security Appliance (NSA) E7500 is the flagship of the E-Class product family designed to be the most scalable, high performance and reliable multifunction threat appliance in its class. It prevents against a vast spectrum of network attacks with unprecedented speed and reliability. This protection is enabled through the NSA E7500 16-core architecture, a parallel performance design for ultra high-speed threat protection and deployment scalability. The NSA E7500 comes standard with four gigabit copper Ethernet ports, four expandable SFP ports for deployment flexibility and an LCD management screen for instant configuration access. Operational reliability is delivered through a suite of high availability features at the hardware level with dual power supplies and fans and at the system level with Stateful failover to dramatically improve uptime. The NSA E7500 offers enterprise customers an extensive array of advanced network and deployment flexibility features for use in large scale enterprise network deployments.

Number of UTM Cores	16
Stateful Packet Inspection Performance	5.6 Gbps
GAV Performance	1.84 Gbps
IPS/ IDP Performance	2.58 Gbps
Full UTM Performance	1.7 Gbps
VPN Performance (3DES & AES)	3 Gbps

 

NSA E8500

The SonicWALL E-Class Network Security Appliance (NSA) E8500 offers Dynamic Security for the Global Network by providing powerful application intelligence and control along with network intrusion detection and prevention. With the patented SonicWALL® Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection™ (RFDPI) engine and sophisticated application intelligence capabilities, the NSA E8500 can analyze and control over 1,100 unique applications, whether they are encrypted with SSL or are unencrypted. This exceptional combination of software sophistication and incredibly powerful hardware leaves little room for application traffic to hide on the network, since SonicWALL’s patented RFDI™ engine is capable of inspecting hundreds of thousands of connections simultaneously across all 65,535 ports equally, with nearly zero latency and without stream size limitations.

 

Number of UTM Cores	16
Stateful Packet Inspection Performance	8.0 Gbps
GAV Performance	2.3 Gbps
IPS/ IDP Performance	3.5 Gbps
Full UTM Performance	2.0 Gbps
VPN Performance (3DES & AES)	4 Gbps