

But, if deployed as a virtual office, small to medium business, corporate branch office, or remote worker internet gateway, traffic is almost certainly going to contain a mix of file download, web application, VoIP and more. Of course, if the product is used purely for consumer download of movie content - almost always buffered for latency management and sent via big 1500 byte frames - we don’t really need to be concerned with IMIX performance. It is regarded as a good representation of the “real-world” conditions (a mix of packet sizes and types) that will be encountered. IMIX refers to typical Internet traffic passing through network devices, like firewalls. Let’s see how it fares with Internet Mix (IMIX) traffic. Let’s put the product to one last test, perhaps the most important one. And that figure holds regardless of packet size.

The SG-1100 essentially provides a 350% packet filtering performance boost relative to the SG-1000. Now let’s see what happens when we enable packet filtering: The SG-1100 is not only significantly more powerful than the SG-1000, it holds its own again much heavier fighters (current and legacy Netgate® appliances) in the ring. The first shows raw throughput with packet filtering disabled (yes, we have buyers who run in this mode): Next, let’s take a look at this fighter’s punching power. The SG-1100 is ideal for Small Office Home Office (SOHO), home lab, virtual office, small to medium business, corporate branch office, and remote worker deployments needing up to 1 Gbps of secure networking performance. Want more detail? The specifications are further chronicled in the product announcement press release, and on our store product page.


