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Enterprise Security Perimeter Mix (Large)

Network Topology

Enterprise Security Perimeter

Description

The firewall is placed at the edge of the enterprise network to protect enterprise users from Internet malware and virus usually by means of application control, antivirus, web filtering, DNS filtering, and SSL deep inspection. Traffic characteristics are asymmetric and north-south. Throughput limited by the WAN interface provisioned by the ISP.

Details

Users (Client IPs): 3250
Applications: 34
Sessions: 40950 (incl. 32350 TLS sessions)
Allocated Bandwidth: 12.65 Gbps