Firewalls are critical components of every network - from Small-Office/Home-Office (SOHO) through the largest Enterprises and Service Providers

Research and Markets have announced the addition of the 'Framework for Benchmarking Performance of Firewalls - Guidelines for conducting a thorough and effective evaluation report to their offering.

(PRWEB) December 25, 2003 --Firewalls are critical components of every network - from Small-Office/Home-Office (SOHO) through the largest Enterprises and Service Providers. Given that all traffic flows through the firewall, understanding its performance characteristics is an essential element of predicting and guaranteeing overall system performance.

This concise "framework" document distills years of experience in validating firewall performance. The guide explores the impact of key variables on throughput and scalability. Among them are:

- Packet loss threshold
- Packet size
- Rule base
- Packet content
- Traffic flow
- Session loading

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