Force10 launches world's fastest IPS

Whether this is really the worlds fastest or not is probably debatable, but it is pretty cool. Lest anybody think that open source is code for clunky and slow, running only on standard PC processors... From Techworld.com: Force10 launches world's fastest IPS.

Intrusion detection and prevention is now practical at wire-speed on 10Gig Ethernet, claimed Force10 Networks. The company has introduced a parallel processor capable of inspecting traffic and enforcing security rules at 20Gbit/s.

The new P-Series appliance uses Linux and the popular Snort open source software, which inspects traffic and compares it to a list of attack signatures. However, instead of using a single general-purpose processor and applying hundreds of rules to a packet in succession, the P-Series has up to 1000 processors in parallel, applying one rule each.