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NS5x00 Sensor capacity

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The following table describes the supported NS5x00 Sensor capacity:

Maximum Type

NS5200

NS5100

Aggregate HTTP Performance

1 Gbps

600 Mbps

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

up to 3 Gbps

up to 1.5 Gbps

Concurrent Connections

1,350,000

750,000

Connections established per second

45,000

40,000

Latency

(Average UDP per packet Latency)

<100 µs

<100 µs

SSL Flow Count

75,000

40,000

Number of SSL certificates that can be imported into the Sensor

1,024

1,024

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

1 Gbps

600 Mbps

Quarantine rules per Sensor- IPv4

7,999

7,999

Quarantine rules per Sensor- IPv6

500

500

Quarantine Zones per Sensor

50

50

Quarantine Zone ACLs per Sensor

1,000

1,000

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

1,000

100

VLAN / CIDR Blocks per Sensor

300

300

VLAN / CIDR Blocks per Interface

254

254

Customized attacks

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

100,000

100,000

Ignore rules

131072

131,072

Number of attacks with ignore rules

100,000

100,000

DoS Profiles

5,000

300

SYN cookie rate (64 ‑ byte packets per second)

1,000,000

750,000

Effective (Firewall) access rules

2,000

2,000

Firewall rule objects

14,000

14,000

Firewall DNS rule objects

750

750

Firewall rule object groups

200

200

Application on Custom Port rule objects

250

250

Firewall user-based rule objects

750

750

Firewall user groups in access rules

10,000

10,000

Number of exclusion list entries permitted for IP Reputation

64

64

Maximum host entries supported for Connection Limiting policies

128,000

128,000

Maximum file size during packet capture

58 MB

58 MB

Passive device profile limits

15,000

15,000

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

See the note below for more information.

32

32

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

See the note below for more information.

1,024

1,024

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

30,000

25,000