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Dell™ SonicWALL® threat prevention for enterprise deployment that does not sacrifice performance.
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| Firewall Overview | SonicWALL NSA E8510 | SonicWALL NSA E8500 | SonicWALL NSA E6500 | SonicWALL NSA E5500 |
| Deep Packet Inspection Firewall | O | O | O | O |
| Stateful Packet Inspection Firewall | S | S | S | S |
| Unlimited File Size Protection | S | S | S | S |
| Protocols Scanned | 50+ | |||
| ICSA Firewall Certified | Pending | Pending | S | S |
| Security Services* | SonicWALL NSA E8510 | SonicWALL NSA E8500 | SonicWALL NSA E6500 | SonicWALL NSA E5500 |
| Application Intelligence and Control | O | O | O | O |
| Intrusion Prevention Service | O | O | O | O |
| Gateway Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware | O | O | O | O |
| Enforced Client Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware | O | O | O | O |
| Content & URL Filtering (CFS) | O | O | O | O |
| ViewPoint Reporting | O | O | O | O |
| Comprehensive Anti-Spam Service | O | O | O | O |
| SSL Inspection (DPI-SSL) | S | S | O | O |
| E-Class 24x7 Support | Required | |||
| Firewall General | SonicWALL NSA E8510 | SonicWALL NSA E8500 | SonicWALL NSA E6500 | SonicWALL NSA E5500 |
| Interfaces | 2 SFP+ 10 GbE, 4 GbE, 1 HA, 2 USB | 4 GbE, 4 SFP, 1 HA, 2 USB | 8 GbE, 1 HA, 2 USB | 8 GbE, 1 HA, 2 USB |
| Management | CLI, SSH, GUI, GMS | |||
| Certifications | VPNC | VPNC | EAL4+, FIPS 140-2 , VPNC , ICSA Firewall 4.1 | EAL4+, FIPS 140-2 , VPNC, ICSA Firewall 4.1 |
| Nodes Supported | Unrestricted | |||
| RAM | 4GB | 4GB | 1GB | 1GB |
| Flash Memory | 512MB | |||
| Visual Information Display (LCD Display) | S | S | S | S |
| Site-to-Site VPN Tunnels | 10000 | 10000 | 6000 | 4000 |
| Global VPN Clients (Maximum) | 2,000 (10,000) | 2,000 (10,000) | 2,000 (6,000) | 2,000 (4,000) |
| SSL VPN NetExtender Clients (Maximum) | 2 (50) | |||
| Virtual Assist Technicians (Maximum) | 1 (25) | |||
| Unique Malware Threats Blocked | 1,000,000+ | |||
| VLAN Interfaces | 512 | 512 | 256 | 256 |
| SonicPoints Supported (Maximum) | 128 | 128 | 128 | 96 |
| Firewall/VPN Performance | SonicWALL NSA E8510 | SonicWALL NSA E8500 | SonicWALL NSA E6500 | SonicWALL NSA E5500 |
| Stateful Throughput* | 8.0 Gbps | 8.0 Gbps | 5.0 Gbps | 3.9 Gbps |
| Full DPI Performance* | 2.2 Gbps | 2.2 Gbps | 1.59 Gbps | 850 Mbps |
| Gateway Anti-Virus Throughput* | 2.25 Gbps | 2.25 Gbps | 1.69 Gbps | 1.0 Gbps |
| Intrusion Prevention Throughput* | 3.7 Gbps | 3.7 Gbps | 2.3 Gbps | 2.0 Gbps |
| IMIX Performance | 2.0 Gbps | 2.0 Gbps | 1.4 Gbps | 1.1 Gbps |
| 3DES/AES VPN Throughput* | 4.0 Gbps | 4.0 Gbps | 2.7 Gbps | 1.7 Gbps |
| Maximum Connections* | 1500000 | 1500000 | 1000000 | 750000 |
| Maximum DPI Connections* | 1250000 | 1250000 | 600000 | 500000 |
| New Connections/Sec | 80000 | 80000 | 20000 | 15000 |
| Features | SonicWALL NSA E8510 | SonicWALL NSA E8500 | SonicWALL NSA E6500 | SonicWALL NSA E5500 |
| Logging | ViewPoint, Local Log, Syslog | |||
| Network Traffic Visualization | S | S | S | S |
| Netflow/IPFIX Reporting | S | S | S | S |
| SNMP | S | S | S | S |
| Authentication | XAUTH/ RADIUS, Active Directory, SSO, LDAP, Terminal Services, Citrix, Internal User Database | |||
| Dynamic Routing | OSPF, RIP | |||
| Single Sign-on (SSO) | S | S | S | S |
| Voice over IP (VoIP) Security | S | S | S | S |
| Interface to Interface Scanning | S | S | S | S |
| PortShield Security | S | S | S | S |
| Port Aggregation | S | S | S | S |
| Link Redundancy | S | S | S | S |
| Policy-based Routing | S | S | S | S |
| Route-based VPN | S | S | S | S |
| Dynamic Bandwidth Management | S | S | S | S |
| 802.11n Wireless Support via SonicPoints | S | S | S | S |
| Integrated Wireless Switch & Controller | S | S | S | S |
| Layer 2 Wireless Bridging | S | S | S | S |
| Stateful High Availability | S | S | S | S |
| Multi-WAN | S | S | S | S |
| Load Balancing | S | S | S | S |
| Object-based Management | S | S | S | S |
| Policy-based NAT | S | S | S | S |
| Inbound Load Balancing | S | S | S | S |
| IKEv2 VPN | S | S | S | S |
| Active/Active UTM | S | S | S | S |
| Terminal Services Authentication/Citrix Support | S | S | S | S |
| Onboard Quality of Service (QoS) | S | S | S | S |
| SSL Control | S | S | S | S |
| IPv6 | S | S | S | S |
| Failover | SonicWALL NSA E8510 | SonicWALL NSA E8500 | SonicWALL NSA E6500 | SonicWALL NSA E5500 |
| Hardware Failover | Active/Passive with State Sync, Active/Active DPI with State Sync | |||
| Multi-WAN Failover | S | S | S | S |
| Automated Failover/Failback | S | S | S | S |
| Analog Modem Failover | S | S | S | S |
| 3G Cellular Modem Failover* | S | S | S | S |
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Discover new efficiencies with multi-core performance architecture.
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Its powerful threat prevention with unprecedented speed. Up to 16 specialized processing cores provide inspection and intelligence, and protect without slowing your real-time network traffic.
Find Out More
Put the power in your hands.
Empower your administrators with precise control over network traffic. Our customizable protection lets you decide what's important to your business, and what tools you want to use to defend your data.
Find Out More
Grow a more flexible deployment.
E-Class NSA appliances are ideal solutions for enterprise deployments. Designed redundant manual operations, E-Class NSA appliances help your business achieve high-speed access and heavy workgroup segmentation, giving your IT team the time to focus on what's important.
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Dynamic protection that's always updated.
Threat protection services are updated anytime, any day. We automatically update security policies, dynamic threat protection and content filtering, so you can eliminate patch management for servers and workstations.
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Threat protection services are updated anytime, any day. We automatically update security policies, dynamic threat protection and content filtering, so you can eliminate patch management for servers and workstations.
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SonicWALL NSA E8500
The SonicWALL E8500 is a premiere enterprise Next-Generation Firewall delivering integrated Intrusion Prevention, Anti-Malware and Application Intelligence and Control with real-time situational visualization and awareness.
SonicWALL NSA E6500
The SonicWALL E6500 offers a high-performance, scalable and secure platform to combat evolving threats to the enterprise network, with high-speed threat protection for demanding deployments.
SonicWALL NSA E5500
The SonicWALL E5500 delivers exceptional protection and performance for the enterprise network. This next-generation security platform offers an array of enterprise networking features.

