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NS3500 Sensor capacity

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The following table describes the supported NS3500 Sensor capacity:

Maximum Type

NS3500

Aggregate HTTP Performance

750 Mbps

Max Throughput with test equipment sending UDP packet size of 1512 Bytes

up to 1 Gbps

Concurrent Connections

1,00,000

Connections established per second

25,000

Latency

(Average UDP per packet Latency)

<100 µs

SSL Flow Count

NA

Number of SSL certificates that can be imported into the Sensor

NA

Throughput with Inbound SSL Decryption (based on 10% SSL traffic)

NA

Quarantine rules per Sensor- IPv4

7,999

Quarantine rules per Sensor- IPv6

500

Quarantine Zones per Sensor

50

Quarantine Zone ACLs per Sensor

1,000

Virtual Interfaces (VIDS) per Sensor (Number of Virtual IPS Systems)

32

VLAN / CIDR Blocks per Sensor

64

VLAN / CIDR Blocks per Interface

64

Customized attacks

See the note below on how the number of customized attacks is affected.

100,000

Ignore rules

65,536

Number of attacks with ignore rules

40,000

DoS Profiles

128

SYN cookie rate (64 ‑ byte packets per second)

400,000

Effective (Firewall) access rules

1,000

Firewall rule objects

7,000

Firewall DNS rule objects

500

Firewall rule object groups

100

Application on Custom Port rule objects

150

Firewall user-based rule objects

500

Firewall user groups in access rules

10,000

Number of exclusion list entries permitted for IP Reputation

32

Maximum host entries supported for Connection Limiting policies

128,000

Maximum file size during packet capture

40 MB

Passive device profile limits

10,000

Advanced Malware - Maximum simultaneous file scan capacity when the file is saved in the Sensor

See the note below for more information.

16

Advanced Malware - Maximum simultaneous file scan capacity without saving files in the Sensor

See the note below for more information.

255

New HTTP connections per second(using 1 GET with 5000 HTTP response)

15,000