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Re: IPS Reliability/Availability

Subject: Re: IPS Reliability/Availability
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:00:59 -0500
On 2/3/06, FinAckSyn <finacksyn@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Hi Mike,

The first question you must ask yourself is whether or
not you are prepared to put a PC-based solution inline
in your network?
So bypass switches may solve reliability issues, but
why bother going to all that trouble with bypass
switches and load balanced clusters when there are
some excellent dedicated, ASIC-based IPS solutions
available.  TippingPoint, McAfee and TopLayer are the
biggest players in this space, and should be on any
shortlist.

Hello,

Don't these same vendors you cite package other vendor's bypass
switches inside their product to keep packets flowing?  Keeping the
ASIC discussion off the table, there shouldn't be a difference
regarding bypass if the bypass switch is housed inside or outside the
appliance, right?

Sincerely,

Richard

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