The Palo Alto NetworksTM PA-500 is targeted at high speed Internet gateway deployments for enterprise branch offices and medium size businesses. The PA-500 manages network traffic flows using dedicated computing resources for networking, security, threat prevention and management.

A high speed backplane smoothes the pathway between processors and the separation of data and control plane ensures that management access is always available, irrespective of the traffic load. Interface density for the PA-500 includes (8) 10/100/1000 traffic interfaces and a dedicated out-of-band management interface.

The controlling element of the PA-500 next-generation firewalls is PAN-OSTM, a security-specific operating system that tightly integrates three unique identification technologies: App-IDTM, User-ID and Content-ID, with key firewall, networking and management features.

• 250 Mbps firewall throughput
• 100 Mbps threat prevention throughput
• 50 Mbps IPSec VPN throughput
• 250 IPSec VPN tunnels and tunnel interfaces
• 7,500 new sessions per second
• 64,000 max sessions
• (8) 10/100/1000
• (1) 10/100/1000 out of band management interface
• (1) 1 RJ-45 console interface

For a complete description of the PA-500 next-generation firewall feature set,please visit www.paloaltonetworks.com/literature.

PA-500 Specifications