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Data Center Security Perimeter Mix (Very Large)

Network Topology

Data Center Security Perimeter

Description

The firewall is placed at the edge of the data center network. It controls traffic flowing from the internet to the data center and flowing from data center to the internet usually by means of IPS. Traffic characteristics are symmetric and north-south. Throughput demand is high because SaaS applications demand high bandwidth and low latency in order to services SaaS users.

Details

Users (Client IPs): 10500
Applications: 6
Sessions: 135000 (incl. 135000 TLS sessions)
Allocated Bandwidth: 14.08 Gbps