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Designed for enterprise campuses, data centres and other
high-performance network environments, the WatchGuard XTM 1050 sets a
new standard for high security and high performance by achieving 10Gbps
firewall and 2Gbps IPSec throughput with dual quad-core Intel processors
and advanced crypto-acceleration hardware. Coupled with power and
performance, the WatchGuard XTM 1050 incorporates key elements of
WatchGuard’s XTM vision, including uncompromising security, extensible
networking and management features, and unparalleled ownership benefits.

WatchGuard, the pioneer of deep packet inspection firewalls coupled with
application proxy technologies, innovates again with the XTM 1050 by
including two new security features: HTTPS inspection and VoIP security.

Although the ’S’ in HTTPS stands for secure, it also means to network
administrators that HTTPS packets are virtually invisible to inspection,
which opens networks to potential ’drive-by downloads’, or other
malicious applications. With WatchGuard’s full HTTPS proxy technology
in the XTM 1050, HTTPS is no longer a risk waiting to be exploited.

Likewise, WatchGuard recognises that as more enterprise and mid-market
businesses adopt VoIP, they open themselves to exploits. By utilising a
host of high security technologies, including network address
translation, port obfuscation, and SIP and H.323 proxies, the WatchGuard
XTM 1050 becomes an ideal security appliance to prevent would-be VoIP
system and network hackers.

Like all other WatchGuard network security appliances, the XTM 1050 will
offer optional security service subscriptions, including WatchGuard
spamBlocker with virus outbreak detection, WatchGuard WebBlocker for URL
and content filtering and WatchGuard Gateway Anti-Virus and IPS/IDS.
All WatchGuard security appliances also come with LiveSecurity Service,
which provides free software updates, expert support and breaking
security alerts.

Providing Extensible Networking Functionality

The WatchGuard XTM 1050 integrates 12 line-speed, high density Gigabit
Ethernet ports with the option to upgrade 4 ports to fibre. Adding to
this multi-port design, WatchGuard unveils several firsts for a device
of this class. This includes active-active multi-WAN load balancing to
achieve high availability (HA), and the ability to cluster two
WatchGuard XTM 1050 appliances as a single, logical unit, thus achieving
nearly 2X throughput. As well, the XTM 1050 includes WAN and VPN
failover with dynamic routing and traffic shaping capabilities to
provide maximum network performance and redundancy for the most
demanding environments.

Physically, WatchGuard further strengthens the hardware components of
its XTM 1050 line by including enterprise-level features, such as dual
hot-swappable power supplies and fans. This further adds to the
systems’ reliability, uptime, ease-of-service and investment protection.

Giving Admins Greater Control with Extensible Management
With WatchGuard’s free WatchGuard Systems Manager, administrators gain
new insight to user activities and network traffic. Adding to this,
for the first time WatchGuard is including a scriptable command line
interface (CLI) option with its popular and intuitive management GUI.

With a scriptable CLI, administrators will be able to easily manage
multiple appliances and create custom management security scripts to
make policy enforcement easier and management simpler. The XTM 1050
will also include roll-based access control (RBAC) so that
administrators can delegate custom management functions while achieving
more granular control.

With its easy drag-and-drop VPN tool, administrators will have no
trouble in setting up branch office VPNs, and with its centralised
policy and VPN management, administrators will be able to uniformly
enforce security policies across multiple locations and among multiple
users.

– WatchGuard XTM 1050 Availability and Pricing:

The WatchGuard XTM 1050 will be available in Q4, 2008. Pricing will be
announced upon availability.