Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Juniper SRX 1500 Firewall Performance 9 Gbps (1518 bytes)

Product Overview

The SRX 1500 Services Gateway is a next-generation firewall and security services gateway offering outstanding protection, performance, scalability, availability, and security service integration. Designed for port density, a high-performance security services architecture, and seamless integration of networking and security in a single platform, the SRX 1500 is best suited for client protection in enterprise campus, regional headquarters or cloud-based security solutions with a focus on application visibility and control, intrusion prevention, and advanced threat protection. The SRX 1500 is powered by Junos OS, the industry-leading operating system that keeps the world’s largest and most mission-critical enterprise networks secure.


SRX 1500 is one of newest product from security family of Juniper Networks. Juniper SRX 1400 is a previous product with the similar performance and capacity with SRX 1500.

SRX 1400 SRX 1500
Form Factor 3U (3RU) 1U (3RU)
Firewall Performance    10 Gbps 10 Gbps
(max)
Firewall Performance       -  9 Gbps
(1518 bytes)

*performance of data is based on datasheet

I have tested with simple test for one of performance SRX 1500 in lab environment use traffic generator with parameter mention in datasheet 1518 bytes. Next time I will test Juniper SRX 1500 to get maximum firewall performance.

Datasheet Actual Test

Firewall Performance         9 Gbps 9227892208 bps
(1518 bytes)

- 9227892208 bps
- 768991 pps
- CPU: 33% (FPC)
- memory: 19% (FPC)

hermawan@SRX1500> show interfaces | match "Desc|rate" | except "0 pps"
    Description: ge-0/0/1.0 - 001
  Output rate    : 9227892208 bps (768991 pps)
    Description: xe-0/0/16.0 - 003
  Input rate     : 9227898200 bps (768991 pps)

hermawan@SRX1500> show security monitoring

                  Flow session   Flow session     CP session     CP session 
FPC PIC CPU Mem        current        maximum        current        maximum

  0   0  33  19              1        2097152              0              0

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