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Performance

Included under this category are products that enhance the performance of Check Point solutions using hardware acceleration, routing solutions, and purpose-built appliances. These include appliances using Check Point Open Performance Architecture.

Check Point's Open Performance Architecture is the fastest and most flexible architecture for protecting against present and future threats while maintaining superior performance. It combines the proven, patented security acceleration technologies of ClusterXL Smart Load Balancing and SecureXL Security Acceleration with the new patent pending CoreXL multi-core acceleration.

SecureXL API
The key to Check Point's open performance architecture is the SecureXL API - an open interface for offloading intensive security operations to third-party hardware or optimized software. SecureXL-enabled solutions are available in a number of form factors including software modules, PCI add-in cards, IPSec NICs, and SecureXL-enabled appliances with network processors. Rather than limiting customers to a single proprietary accelerator, devices utilizing the SecureXL API meet customer needs by delivering multi-gigabit performance levels, multiple form factors, and a range of price points.

Multi-core CPU Support
Designed specifically to leverage open multi-core architectures such as the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5300 Series, VPN-1 Power with CoreXL is the first network security gateway to enable security administrators to gain data center level performance while activating intrusion prevention with a strict protection profile to protect against application layer threats. The Core XL technology scales performance linearly using its patent-pending multi-core load sharing technologies. Along with Check Point's open performance architecture that is designed for high speed security inspection, VPN-1 Power with CoreXL accelerates security by dynamically sharing the security inspection responsibilities between all cores on a multi-core processor. Each core independently runs VPN-1 to offer faster, comprehensive security inspection. This helps customers keep a predictable performance level when new threats appear compared to closed ASIC-based systems that lock customers into hardware refresh cycles that do not align with their evolving business or network needs.