Sizing appliances for new implementations and determining load on current systems
If you are in a planning phase for the implementation of Check Point firewalls in your infrastructure, you must determine (with some accuracy) the capacity of the appliances that must satisfy your requirements.
A firewall lifespan in a typical infrastructure is between five and seven years and, because of projected growth in data traffic, it is recommended to choose the appliances at around 35% current estimated load utilization.
If you are simply replacing an existing solution from a different vendor, you may have the necessary data available in its performance reports. If they are not locally available, it is possible that this data is collected by the vendor through telemetry, and you can ask their technical support to provide it.
If you are planning to use a Check Point firewall or cluster as a common internet edge gateway, you may be able to obtain historical utilization data from your internet...
