The following table describes the supported NS7500 Sensor capacity:
| Maximum
Type |
NS7500-
7.5 Gbps throughput |
NS7500-
5 Gbps throughput |
NS7500-
3 Gbps throughput |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aggregate HTTP Performance | 7.5 Gbps | 5 Gbps | 3 Gbps |
| Max
Throughput with test equipment sending UDP packet size of 1512 Bytes |
12 Gbps | 9 Gbps | 6 Gbps |
| Concurrent
Connections |
10,000,000 | 7,000,000 | 4,000,000 |
| Connections
established per second |
250,000 | 225,000 | 200,000 |
| Latency
(Average UDP per packet Latency) |
20 µs | 20 µs | 20 µs |
| SSL Flow
Count |
1,000,000 | 700,000 | 400,000 |
| Number of
SSL certificates that can be imported into the Sensor |
1,024 | 1,024 | 1,024 |
| Throughput
with Inbound SSL Decryption (based on 10% SSL traffic) |
6.7 | 4.5 | 2.7 |
| Quarantine
rules per Sensor- IPv4 |
7,999 | 7,999 | 7,999 |
| Quarantine
rules per Sensor- IPv6 |
500 | 500 | 500 |
| Quarantine
Zones per Sensor |
50 | 50 | 50 |
| Quarantine
Zone ACLs per Sensor |
1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| Virtual
Interfaces (VIDS) per Sensor (Number of Virtual IPS Systems) |
1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| VLAN/CIDR
Blocks per Sensor |
3,000 | 3,000 | 3,000 |
| VLAN/CIDR
Blocks per Interface |
254 | 254 | 254 |
| Customized attacks
See the note below on how the number of customized attacks is affected. |
100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 |
| Ignore rules | 262,144 | 262,144 | 262,144 |
| Number of
attacks with ignore rules |
128,000 | 128,000 | 128,000 |
| DoS Profiles | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 |
| SYN cookie
rate (64 ‑ byte packets per second) |
4,000,000 | 3,000,000 | 1,800,000 |
| Effective
(Firewall) access rules |
4,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 |
| Firewall
rule objects |
35,000 | 35,000 | 35,000 |
| Firewall
DNS rule objects |
1,250 | 1,250 | 1,250 |
| Firewall
rule object groups |
400 | 400 | 400 |
| Application
on Custom Port rule objects |
500 | 500 | 500 |
| Firewall
user-based rule objects |
1,250 | 1,250 | 1,250 |
| Firewall
user groups in access rules |
10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 |
| Number
of exclusion list entries permitted for IP Reputation |
128 | 128 | 128 |
| Maximum
host entries supported for Connection Limiting policies |
256,000 | 256,000 | 256,000 |
| Maximum
file size during packet capture |
100 MB | 100 MB | 100 MB |
| Passive
device profile limits |
100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 |
| Advanced Malware - Maximum simultaneous file scan capacity when the file is saved in the Sensor
See the note below for more information. |
1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| Advanced Malware - Maximum simultaneous file scan capacity without saving files in the Sensor
See the note below for more information. |
1,024 | 1,024 | 1,024 |
| New HTTP
connections per second (using 1 GET with 5000 HTTP response) |
170,000 | 140,000 | 115,000 |