Check Point 44000 Appliance
Support the dynamic needs of growing networks while offering high reliability and performance

Overview:

The Check Point 44000 and 64000 Security Systems are designed to excel in demanding large data center and telco environments. The multi-bladed, chassis-based security systems scale up to 66,000 SPU to support the dynamic needs of growing networks while offering high reliability and performance.

Insights

Large data centers have uncompromising needs for performance, uptime and scalability. High end security gateway solutions must perform network access control within the unique requirements of these environments—ultra-high throughput, connection capacity, session and logging rate—while supporting the latest networking standards like IPv6. Additionally, with the increase in sophisticated attacks, security layers to protect against both known and unknown threats have become essential for organizations. In addition to their vast performance and security needs, data center environments are characterized by rigid requirements for high reliability of its various systems. All of these requirements drive the need for redundant, serviceable and highly available components and systems.

Solution

The Check Point 44000 and 64000 Security Systems are built for these demanding environments and are based on proven technologies used by Fortune 100 companies and telecommunication vendors all over the world. The Check Point Firewall, IPS, Application Control and Identity Awareness technologies have been awarded the highest 3rd-party certifications possible including NATO Information Product Catalog; US Government penetration testing; Department of Defense Information Systems Agency, ISO-IEC 15408 and more.

The ATCA compliant, carrier grade design offers unsurpassed scalability, availability and serviceability with high performance and high port density. Redundant Security Switch Modules (SSM) provide switching fabric, physical interface, and routing functions. Redundant Chassis Management Modules (CMM) continuously check and monitor the health of the chassis including fans, power supplies and Security Gateway Modules (SGM). For optimal reliability, Check Point ClusterXL Load Sharing distributes the load between Security Gateway Modules in one chassis and ClusterXL High Availability operates between chassis. Check Point SyncXL provides for highly efficient synchronization of system and security information between components in order to ensure high system performance. Deploy two chassis in high availability mode to eliminate down-time.

These two platforms improve security, protect business continuity and reduce operational costs in complex, mission critical security environments such as data centers, Managed Service Providers and telecommunication companies. By adding more SGMs companies get more security and performance. Because SGMs are hot-swappable, customers can add SGMs, boosting performance to new or existing 44000 and 64000 systems even when those systems are in production.

Product Benefits

• Scalable platform that grows with your business
• High port density with 10, 40 and 100 GbE fiber ports
• Full redundancy (N+N, N+1) eliminates down-time
• Advanced protection against known and unknown threats
• Designed for ease of management and fast deployment

Product Features

• Scalable security solution
• Raw firewall performance up to 395 Gbps in the 44000 and 880 Gbps in the 64000
• Enterprise Threat Pprevention performance up to 90 Gbps in the 44000 and 180 Gbps in the 64000
• High port density with up to 64x10GbE, 12x40GbE or 4x100GbE ports
• Intra/Dual-Chassis redundancy
• Carrier grade ATCA compliant chassis
• Full range of customizable protection capabilities from Firewall, IPS, to SandBlast Threat Emulation

Features:

Security System

The Check Point 64000 Security System is the industry’s fastest security system, achieving up to 180 Gbps of Enterprise Threat Prevention throughput in a single firewall instance. Even more, the ability to support 110.4 million concurrent connections and 4.92 million sessions per second brings unparalleled performance to multi-transaction environments.

This ATCA compliant, scalable system contains up to 12 Security Gateway Modules (SGM) and 2 Security Switch Modules (SSM). The SSMs distribute the load evenly across the 1.2 Tbps chassis backplane fabric to the SGMs ensuring near linear scalability as SGMs are added to the chassis.

The 64000 Security System has been designed from the ground up to support the unique service requirements of Telco’s and data centers. This includes system level redundancy and chassis level redundancy of the components that comprise the 64000 such as power-supplies, fans and the various hardware modules.

NEBS Certified

The 64000 meets Network Equipment Building Systems (NEBS) Level 3 certification requirements for products used in telecommunications networks.

Each 44000 and 64000 Security System is packaged with a group of preselected Check Point Software Blades including Firewall, IPsec VPN, Identity Awareness, Advanced Networking, and Acceleration and Clustering. Customize your protection by enabling additional Software Blades, such as SandBlast Threat Emulation which blocks zero-day attacks and unknown threats. This lowers total cost of ownership and meets any need, today and in the future.

Virtual Systems

Check Point Virtual Systems (VS) enable organizations to create virtualized security gateways to consolidate infrastructure and segment the network while reducing costs and offering customized per-Virtual System Software Blade security. The solution supports seamless performance scaleup by adding more Virtual Systems and hardware blades, with traffic evenly balanced across the entire chassis.

Ease of Management

Our renowned security management software centrally manages the 44000 and 64000 from anywhere in the network. With our intuitive configuration wizard, the first SGM can be deployed in less than 30 minutes and additional SGMs can be added seamlessly.

Integrated Security Architecture

Each 44000 and 64000 Security System is packaged with Firewall, IPsec VPN, Identity Awareness, Advanced Networking, and Acceleration and Clustering. Customize your protection by enabling additional advanced threat prevention features such as IPS and SandBlast Threat Emulation to block zero-day attacks and unknown threats. This lowers total cost of ownership and meets any need, today and in the future.

Specifications:

Appliance	44000	64000
Enterprise Testing Conditions
Threat Prevention Throughput (Gbps)1	up to 90	up to 180
NGFW Throughput (Gbps)2	up to 204	up to 408
Firewall Throughput (Gbps)	up to 335	up to 800
Ideal Testing Conditions
Firewall Throughput, 1518 byte UDP (Gbps)	up to 395	up to 880
Connections Per Second (M)	up to 2.46	up to 4.92
Concurrent Sessions (M)	up to 55.2	up to 110.4
Security Gateway Modules
SGM400 (Default/Max)	1/6	2/12
Virtual Systems
Maximum	250	250
Physical
Enclosure	6U	16U
Dimensions Standard (WxDxH)	17.5 x 15 x 10.5 in.	17.7 X 15.2 x 26.43 in.
Dimensions Metric (WxDxH)	445 x 383 x 267 mm	449 x 385.6 x 696.7 mm
Weight (chassis without SGMs)	20 kg (44 lbs.)	57.4 kg (126.6 lbs.)
Weight (fully populated)	40 kg (88.2 lbs.)	99.8 kg (220.1 lbs.)
AC Power
Power Supplies	4	4 (up to 9 SGMs), 6 (10-12 SGMs)
Input Voltage	85-240VAC	200-240VAC
Frequency	47-63Hz	47-63Hz
Single Power Supply Rating	1200W @ 110V, 1584W @ 220V	2496W @ 208V/230V
DC Power
Power Entry Modules (PEM)	-	up to 250
Input	-	up to 250
Power Consumption
Maximum	up to 250	up to 250
Thermal Output	up to 250	up to 250
Environmental Conditions
Operating	23° to 122°F / –5° to 50°C, 5%-90% (non-condensing)
Storage	–40° to 158°F / –40° to 70°C, 5%-95% (non-condensing)
Certifications
Safety	UL/EN/IEC60950-1 Certified with all country deviations
Emissions	FCC part 15 Class A
Environmental	RoHS, WEEE
NEBS Certified	No	Yes
Maximum Port Capacity (2 Security Switch Modules)
100G QSFP28	4	4
40G QSFP+	12	12
10GBase-F SFP+	64	64
Transceivers
Network and Synchronization	QSFP28 transceiver for 100GbE ports (SR/MR/LR) QSFP transceiver for 40GbE ports (SR/LR) QSFP splitter for 40 GbE ports SFP+ (10GbE) fiber transceiver for SFP+ ports (SR/LR) SFP fiber transceiver for 1GbE SFP ports (SX/LX) Twisted pair transceiver for 1GbE SFP ports
Management and Log	SFP+ (10GbE) fiber transceiver for SFP+ ports (SR/LR) Fiber transceiver for 1GbE SFP ports (SX/LX) Twisted pair transceiver for 1GbE SFP ports (SX/LX)

¹ Includes Firewall, Application Control, URL Filtering, IPS, Antivirus, Anti-Bot and SandBlast Zero-Day Protection with R80SP.20.
² Includes Firewall, Application Control and IPS with R80SP.20.

Software Package Comparison:

	NGFW	NGTP	SNBT
Security Appliance (wired, Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi with xDSL or embedded LTE)	✓	✓	✓
Premium Support (24x7 response, software upgrades and more)	✓	✓	✓
PRO Support option (proactive health monitoring service)	✓	✓	✓
Firewall	✓	✓	✓
VPN	✓	✓	✓
Mobile Access (includes 100 concurrent users in the 1530, 1550, or 200 in the 1570, 1590)	✓	✓	✓
Application Control	✓	✓	✓
Intrusion Prevention System	✓	✓	✓
URL Filtering		✓	✓
Antivirus and Anti-Bot		✓	✓
Treat Emulation (sandboxing)			✓

Documentation:

Download the Check Point 44000 - 64000 Appliance Datasheet (PDF).