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Security deployments today can require up to gigabit firewall performance without compromising security. Check Point delivers unparalleled performance with SecureXL - a security performance architecture that incorporates a number of innovate acceleration technologies. Included in this comprehensive architecture is the SecureXL API, an open interface for offloading intensive security operations to either hardware accelerators or optimized software. A range of SecureXL-enabled acceleration products is available from Check Point and its partners that enable multi-gigabit performance on both open servers and appliances.

Performance Pack is a software-based implementation of the SecureXL API that accelerates security functions on the Linux platform. By implementing access control, NAT, accounting and anti-spoofing at the hardware interrupt level, it greatly reduces the overhead associated with processing packets. On select off-the-shelf standards-based server systems, Performance Pack provides 3.2 Gbps of throughput with no compromise of security.

ClusterXL, an optional SecureXL-based module, is an advanced high availability and load sharing solution for all gateway traffic. Traffic of all types is distributed across a cluster of firewall gateways resulting in near linear performance gains as additional cluster members are added. In addition, state-table information between all tables is continuously synchronized. In the event that a single gateway becomes unreachable, all new and ongoing connections are redirected to remaining cluster members. No connections of any kind are dropped during a fail-over.