Packet flows and acceleration
Given today's threat landscape and an ever-increasing emphasis on security, you would think that every packet traversing, entering, or leaving our network must be inspected with prejudice before being allowed to pass. This, clearly, is not the case, as doing that would simply use up unnecessary CPU cycles and negatively impact performance, while not improving security in the least.
Check Point utilizes the following proprietary technologies to achieve the best possible traffic processing speed for its firewalls:
- CoreXL is the load balancing mechanism that assigns CPU cores for either acceleration and packet routing duties, Secure Network Distributor (SND), or for deep packet inspection, FireWall Worker (fwk).
- SecureXL is the traffic routing and acceleration mechanism that increases throughput and connection rate using either software or dedicated acceleration cards (SecureXL instances) and chooses the fwk processes that will handle...
