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As enterprise networks evolve, 10Gbps network links have become relatively low in cost and increasingly more widespread. Core network upgrades driven by data centre expansions, high performance computing and high bandwidth applications like video on demand and file sharing contribute to the adoption of 10Gbps networks. The need to inspect and remove malicious traffic at high throughput traffic points is now greater than ever. Network and security engineers realize intrusion prevention systems must be implemented not only at the WAN perimeter, but also between major network segments within core networks and in data centres.

The TippingPoint Core Controller is deployed as a ‘bump-in-the-wire’ network element for up to three 10Gbps network links. Traffic entering the Core Controller is intelligently flow balanced to a bank of TippingPoint IPS’s where traffic inspection and enforcement are performed. Malicious and unwanted traffic is blocked and clean traffic is returned to the Core Controller for distribution to the appropriate 10Gbps egress link, allowing organizations to economically scale security traffic inspection and enforcement.

The TippingPoint Core Controller enables 10Gbps links to be protected by the TippingPoint IPS while ensuring high availability, performance, low latency and security accuracy. All TippingPoint appliances are purpose-built with the reliability to go in-line in enterprise and service provider networks. In addition, the Core Controller’s high availability features; including redundant configurability, built-in zero power bypass (Smart ZPHA), IPS heartbeat monitoring, link down synchronization and hardware watchdogs; allow an unprecedented level of redundancy configuration to eliminate single points of failure.

The TippingPoint Core Controller offers organizations an economical entry for IPS protection on existing 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) networks. They can purchase the IPS capacity initially required, and add more capacity as traffic inspection needs increase.

Further, organizations with existing TippingPoint IPS units initially purchased for lower speed network links can redeploy those units with the Core Controller for 10GbE protection. TippingPoint Core Controller’s flexible deployment options provide a “pay- as-you-grow” model that allows organizations to easily leverage existing investments and increase their IPS capacity as bandwidth and security requirements evolve.

The TippingPoint Core Controller’s Intelligent Learning Mode enables rapid deployment by analyzing network traffic on each 10GbE segment and providing recommendations for selecting the optimal flow balancing traffic algorithms – saving valuable configuration time for network and security engineers.

Both the TippingPoint Core Controller and IPS units are centrally managed by the TippingPoint Security Management System (SMS). The TippingPoint SMS enables comprehensive analysis and TippingPoint device inventory and health. With its policy- based operational model and auto-discovery features, the TippingPoint SMS quickly finds newly deployed TippingPoint devices and enables straightforward management of large-scale IPS and Core Controller deployments.

Coupled with the TippingPoint IPS, the Core Controller enables comprehensive protection at various enforcement points between major network segments within core networks and in data centers. By providing a lower cost of entry for IPS protection on 10Gbps network segments, TippingPoint helps organizations realize a significant return on their investment.

Price and availability:

The TippingPoint Core Controller is now available and starts at $59,995 USD list.