Kris Raney

The room was full that day in February 2009, everyone eager to witness what, at the time, would be the fastest public firewall test using stateful application traffic. Minutes later the BreakingPoint Storm CTM had put the Juniper SRX5800 through the paces, achieving 109 Gigabits per second (Gbps) of true application traffic. On that day the SRX5800 became the first network device tested with more than 100 Gbps of blended Layer 4-7 application traffic. During the past several years we've seen even more public firewall tests using real-world conditions, from a live test of the Cisco ASA 5500 during RSA Conference 2011 (the first with the BreakingPoint FireStorm CTM) using applications ranging from eBay to Facebook, to today's announcement concerning the Fortinet FortiGate 5140B.