F5 FirePass® SSL VPN

F5's FirePass® SSL VPN appliance provides secure access to corporate applications and data using a standard web browser. Delivering outstanding performance, scalability, ease-of-use, and security, FirePass helps increase the productivity of those working from home or on the road. Businesses reap a competitive advantage because they can give key partners controlled access to applications and data. And IT departments can rest assured with a reliable solution that deploys quickly and interoperates immediately with their existing network infrastructure.

Key Benefits

Broadest Application Support – Access to email, web portals, network file services, terminal services, CRM and other key enterprise applications, using any device.

Integrated Endpoint Security – Delivers a Secure Virtual Workspace, pre-login endpoint integrity checks, and endpoint trust management for peace of mind with fewer administrative hassles.

Highest Scalability – Supports up to 2,000 concurrent sessions on a single, easy-to-manage box. Built-in load balanced clustering can support up to 20,000 sessions. More than 20,000 sessions can be supported by integration with BIG-IP.

Low Cost of Ownership – Installs in 30 minutes or less. Visual Policy Editor delivers a point-and-click interface for managing groups, users, or devices with ease.

Market Leading Performance and Scalability – Fast access using compression for file transfers and email; supports an unlimited number of users.

Broad Interoperability – Supports existing network infrastructure and identity management systems via Radius, LDAP, and more. Delivers web portal integration with support for Java applets, Javascript rewrite, and more (VPNC certified).

High Availability and Reliability – Delivers the same, state-of-the-art hardware platform as F5's award-winning BIG-IP traffic management system.

FirePass 1000 Series
The FirePass 1000 Controller is a 1U rack-mount server designed for small to medium enterprise locations. It supports up to 100 concurrent users and offers a comprehensive solution for secure web-based remote access to corporate applications and desktops.

FirePass 4100 Series
The FirePass 4100 Controller is a 2U rack-mount server designed for large enterprise locations. It supports up to 2000 concurrent users and offers a comprehensive solution for secure web-based remote access to corporate applications and desktops.

FIPS SSL Accelerator Hardware Option
FirePass is FIPS compliant* to meet the strong security needs of government, finance, healthcare and other security conscious organizations. FirePass 4100 offers unique support for FIPS 140 Level-2 enabled tamper proof storage of SSL keys, as well as FIPS certified cipher support for encrypting and decrypting SSL traffic in hardware. FIPS SSL Accelerator is available as a factory install option to the base 4100 platform.

SSL Accelerator Hardware Option
FirePass 4100 offers a unique Hardware SSL Acceleration option to offload the SSL key exchange as well as the encryption and decryption of SSL traffic. This enables significant performance gains in large enterprise environments for processor intensive ciphers such as 3DES and AES.

Clustering
FirePass 4100 Controllers can be clustered to support up to 20,000 sessions on a single URL with built-in load balanced clustering option, without performance degradation. For high performance large scale clustering, customers can leverage unique integration with BIG-IP by off-loading SSL termination to BIG-IP, scale beyond the 20,000 concurrent sessions in a cluster, and maximize the SSL VPN cluster performance.

Failover
FirePass Controllers can be configured for hot, stateful failover between yoked pairs of servers (an active server and a standby server), without session interruption or termination. This means that in the unlikely event of a server failure, all session data is preserved and the failover to a backup unit is invisible to the user.