Barracuda NextGen Firewall F

The Next Generation Firewall for the Cloud-Era

Enterprise networks grow larger and more complex every day - and more critical to key business operations. The Barracuda NextGen Firewall F-Series is an essential tool to optimize the performance, security, and availability of today's dispersed enterprise WANs.

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The Barracuda Advantage

Effective WAN Management

  • Application-based traffic prioritization across the WAN
  • Intelligent uplink balancing
  • Intelligent traffic re-prioritization on uplink loss

Enterprise Readiness

  • Industry-leading centralized management
  • WAN optimization
  • Global WAN monitoring with Barracuda Earth

Scalable Security

  • Cloud Enablement and secure WAN Virtualization
  • Drag-and-drop VPN graphical tunnel interface

Product Spotlight

  • Powerful next-generation network firewall
  • Advanced Threat Detection
  • Built-in web security and IDS/IPS
  • Dynamic mesh site-to-site VPN
  • Client-to-Site VPN via browser (SSL VPN), mobile apps and desktop VPN clients
  • Full application visibility and granular control
  • Intelligent traffic regulation including application-based provider selection
  • Tightly integrated Quality of Service (QoS) and link balancing
  • Centralized management of all functionality
  • Template-based and role-based con guration

Integrated Next-Generation Security

The Barracuda NextGen Firewall F-Series is designed and built from the ground up to provide comprehensive, next- generation firewall capabilities. Cloud-hosted content filtering and reporting offload compute-intensive tasks to the cloud for greater resource efficiency and throughput. Based on application visibility, user-identity awareness, intrusion prevention, and centralized management, F-Series is the ideal solution for today?s dynamic enterprises.

Regaining Control of User Activity

The Barracuda NextGen Firewall F-Series restores control to networks made opaque and unmanageable by mobile devices at work, Web 2.0 applications, increasing dispersion, and the growing integration and dependence on cloud- based resources. It extends security coverage beyond network boundaries, and makes it easy to monitor and regulate everything the network and its users are doing.

True Enterprise Readiness

The Barracuda NextGen Firewall F-Series meets the enterprise requirements for massive scalability and e cient management across distributed networks. Integrated WAN optimization and dedicated centralized management appliances enable organizations to increase system availability while keeping administrative time and operation costs low.

Technical Specs

Firewall

  • Stateful packet inspection and forwarding
  • Full user-identity awareness
  • Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDS/IPS)
  • Application control and granular application enforcement
  • Interception and decryption of SSL/TLS encrypted applications
  • Antivirus and web filtering in single pass mode
  • SafeSearch enforcement
  • Google Accounts Enforcement
  • Denial of Service protection (DoS/DDoS)
  • Spoofing and flooding protection
  • ARP spoofing and trashing protection
  • DNS reputation filtering
  • Transparent proxying (TCP)
  • NAT (SNAT, DNAT), PAT
  • Dynamic rules / timer triggers
  • Single object-oriented rule set for routing, bridging, and routed bridging
  • Virtual rule test environment

User Identity Awareness

  • Terminal Server Agent
  • Domain Controller Agent
  • Authentication - supports x.509, NTLM, RADIUS, RSA SecurID, LDAP/LDAPS, Active Directory, TACACS+, SMS Passcode (VPN), local authentication database
  • WiFi Access Point Authentication support

Intrusion Detection and Prevention

  • Protection against exploits, threats and vulnerabilities
  • Packet anomaly and fragmentation protection
  • Advanced anti-evasion and obfuscation techniques
  • Automatic signature updates

Traffic Optimization

  • Link monitoring, aggregation, and failover
  • Dynamic routing
  • Application-based provider selection
  • Traffic shaping and QoS
  • On-the-fly flow reprioritization
  • Stream and packet compression
  • Byte-level data deduplication
  • Protocol optimization (SMBv2)

Advanced Threat Detection

  • Dynamic, on-demand analysis of malware programs (sandboxing)
  • Dynamic analysis of documents with embedded exploits (PDF, O ce, etc.)
  • Detailed forensics for both, malware binaries and web threats (exploits)
  • Support for multiple operating systems (Windows, Android, etc.)
  • Botnet and Spyware Protection
  • Flexible malware analysis in the cloud

VPN

  • Drag & drop VPN tunnel configuration
  • Secure site-to-site, client-to-site VPN
  • Dynamic mesh site-to-site VPN
  • Supports AES-128/256, 3DES, DES, Blow sh, CAST, null ciphers
  • SPrivate CA or external PKI
  • VPNC certified (basic interoperability)
  • Application-aware traffic routing
  • IPsec VPN / SSL VPN / TINA VPN/ L2TP / PPTP
  • Network Access Control
  • iOS and Android mobile device VPN support

Support Options

Barracuda Energize Updates

  • Standard technical support
  • Firmware updates
  • IPS signature updates
  • Application control definition updates
  • Web filter updates

Instant Replacement Service

  • Replacement unit shipped next business day
  • 24/7 technical support
  • Free hardware refresh every four years

Security Options

  • Advanced Threat Detection provides le- type-based protection against advanced malware and cloud-based sandboxing
  • Malware Protection
MODEL COMPARISON F18 F80 F180 F280 F380
CAPACITY
Firewall Throughput (Gb/sec) 1 1,35 1.65 3.0 3.8
VPN Throughput (Mb/sec)** 190 240 300 1,000 1,200
IPS Throughput (Mb/sec) 400 500 600 1,000 1,400
Concurrent Sessions 80.000 80.000 100.000 250.000 400.000
New session/sec 8.000 8.000 9.000 10.000 15.000
Hardware
Form Factor Desktop Desktop Desktop Desktop 1U
1GbE Copper NIC 4x 4x 6x 6x 8x
1GbE Fiber NIC(SFP)          
10GbE Fiber NIC(SFP+)          
Integrated Switch     8-port 8-port  
Wi-Fi Access Point   check check check  
Features
Firewall check check check check check
Application Control check check check check check
IPS check check check check check
Dynamic Routing check check check check check
App-based Provider Selection check check check check check
VPN check check check check check
SSL Interception check check check check check
WAN Optimization check check check check check
Web Filter check check check check check
Mail Gateway & Spam Filter     check check check
Malware Protection Optional Optional Optional Optional Optional
Advanced Threat Detection Optional Optional Optional Optional Optional
Premium Remote Access   Optional Optional Optional Optional
MODEL COMPARISON F400
STD|F20
F600
C10|F10|E20
C20|F20|
F800
CCC|CCF|CCE
F900
CCC|CCE|CFE
F1000
CE0|CE2|CFE
Capacity
Firewall Throughput (Gb/sec) 5,5 16,3 19,6 35 40
VPN Throughput (Gb/sec)** 1,2 2,3 7,3 9,3 10
IPS Throughput (Gb/sec) 2 5 6,3 11,3 13
Concurrent Sessions (million) 0,5 2,1 2,5 4 10
New session/sec 20.000 115.000 150.000 190.000 250.000
HARDWARE
Form Factor 1U 1U 1U 1U 2U
1GbE Copper NIC 8x|8x 12x|8x|8x 20x|12x|12x 32x|16x|8x 16x|32x|16x
1GbE Fiber NIC(SFP) ---|4x ---|4x|--- ---|4x|--- ---|---|8x 16x|32x|16x
10GbE Fiber NIC(SFP+) --- ---|---|2x ---|---|4x ---|8x|8x 4x|8x|8x
Integrated Switch          
Wi-Fi Access Point          
Features
Firewall check check check check check
Application Control check check check check check
IPS check check check check check
Dynamic Routing check check check check check
App-based Provider Selection check check check check check
VPN check check check check check
SSL Interception check check check check check
WAN Optimization check check check check check
Web Filter check check check check check
Mail Gateway & Spam Filter check check check check check
Malware Protection Optional Optional Optional Optional Optional
Advanced Threat Detection Optional Optional Optional Optional Optional
Premium Remote Access Optional Optional Optional Optional Optional

* Measured with UDP; large packets
** Measured with AES; MD5

 
 
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