MSA 800 Multiple Security Appliance
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MSA 800

 

What is it? Multiple VPNs/Firewalls in a Box

Cubix's "Multiple Security Appliance" (MSA) is a fault-tolerant, densely packaged, chassis and security appliance blade system that is tested and certified as "Secured by Check Point". MSA 800 systems are designed for enterprises and service providers who support multiple security policies from a centralized location. The MSA 800 has capacity of eight Security Appliance Blades. Cubix multi-appliance systems feature hardened, ready to use appliance blades with integrated KVM switching, n+1 hot-swap power systems, redundant cooling, PCI expansion slots and the ability to hot-swap appliance blades.

Flexible Platforms for Building Security Farms

In addition to VPN/Firewalls, additional blades can be used to deploy security applications from other OPSEC partners, such as intrusion detection, virus scanning, URL screening, event monitoring, PKI, and authentication.

What does it do?
  • Centralizes & consolidates as many as 8 VPN-1/FireWall-1 appliances in high density, fault-tolerant, rack mounted chassis
  • Provides secure, hardened Linux OS with a simple user interface
  • Provides platform for building “Security Farms” with other OPSEC products
  • Ideal hardware platform for resellers to build load-balanced clusters
  • Ensures reliable performance through redundant hardware architecture
Target Market
  • Companies wishing to deploy multiple VPN-1/FireWall-1 in high density package
  • Companies wishing to package multiple security applications in a single box
  • Companies building load balanced clusters for improved availability and/or throughput performance
  • Service providers who wish to deploy multiple independent VPN-1/FireWall-1
Customer Benefits
  • Excellent price/performance
  • Conserve rack-mount space, cabling requirements and installation time
  • Flexible, scalable architecture for builiding Security Farms, and clusters
  • Secure, hardened OS insures additional level of security
Key Selling Points/ Differentiators
  • Centralized & consolidated packaging for 8 Security Appliance Blades
  • Price/performance leader
  • Flexible configuration options, including support for powerful Dual-SMP blade
  • Fault-tolerant features such as hot-swap blades, redundant cooling and n+1 hot-swap power supplies
  • Integrated KVM switch
Technical Specs Processor: 850MHz Intel PentiumŪ III
Operating System:
Hardened operating system based on Red Hat Linux 7.0
Network Interfaces:
2x on-board 10/100 Ethernet & 1x PCMCIA 10/100 Ethernet
Expansion Slots:
1x PCMCIA & 1x PCI Slot
RAM:
256MB
Throughput:
80Mbps VPN-1 (w/VPN-1 Accelerator Card II) / 200-300 Mbps FW-1 (estimated)
Pricing
  • MSA 800 chassis and one appliance blade (8 blade capacity) - $5,895. Additional blades - $1,895. A fully loaded MSA 800 (8 appliance blades) has a list price of $19,160 providing an average list price per blade of approximately $2395
For Additional Information
  • Go to www.cubix.com
  • Call a Cubix inside representative at (800) 829-0550
  • Send email to sales@cubix.com

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