Abstract

ServGate Technologies, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate its SG2000, a multifunction firewall designed for large enterprises and carriers that is designed to deliver gigabit performance. The Tolly Group tested the SG2000 as a single-rule firewall configured with two Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and benchmarked its bidirectional packet per second UDP/IP packet throughput.

Testing showed that the Gigabit Ethernet firewall delivered wire-speed throughput of 2Gbps in a full-duplex scenario with up to 200,000 sessions passing 64-byte frames, maintained wire-speed throughput even when ession loads increased from 1,000 session on up to 200,000 UDP sessions, achieved 95% of wire-speed throughput when handling 1,518-byte frames and 200,000 sessions, and processed up to 2,976,190 packets per second (pps) of 64-byte frames with 200,000 sessions. 

Note: ServGate was founded in 1999. It was sold in a foreclosure sale in 2006 to Cirond Corp. The company absorbed the products but did not advance or continue the product line.