Abstract

NetScreen Technologies, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate its NetScreen-100, an enterprise class firewall and Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) Virtual Private Network gateway. This purpose-built, Fast Ethernet security device was benchmarked by The Tolly Group and compared to the following three devices: a Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd. FireWall-1/VPN-1; a Nokia IP650; and a Cisco Systems, Inc. Firewall Series PIX-515. For all devices under test, The Tolly Group conducted application throughput and zero-loss throughput tests in an IPSec tunnel configuration. Engineers also measured zero-loss throughput and TCP/IP session-processing rate in a firewall configuration.