Benefits
Scales up the VPN and deep packet inspection performance of a firewall solution and the throughput of an IPS solution
Eliminates the risk of downtime
Clusters up to 16 nodes to function as a single security engine The way the load balancing is designed allows using engine nodes with different hardware in the cluster.
The clustering and load-balancing technologies in StoneGate security engine have evolved from Stonesoft's StoneBeat products.