R3166-R3206-HP High-End Firewalls Getting Started Guide-6PW101

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Figure 1 Appearance of the A-F1000-E
Firewall A-F5000
The HP A-F5000 firewall (hereinafter referred to as the A-F5000) provides security protection for large
enterprises, carriers, and data centers. It adopts multi-core multi-threaded and ASIC processors to
construct a distributed architecture, which allows for the separation of the system management and
service processing, making it a firewall that has the highest, distributed security processing capability.
The A-F5000 supports the following functions and features:
• Protection against external attacks, internal network protection, traffic monitoring, email filtering,
web filtering, application layer filtering
• ASPF
• Multiple types of VPN services, such as L2TP VPN, GRE VPN, IPsec VPN, and dynamic VPN
• RIP/OSPF/BGP routing, routing policy, and policy-based routing
• Power supply 1+1 redundancy backup (AC+AC or DC+DC)
• Service interface cards are hot swappable.
• High availability functions, such as stateful failover and VRRP
Figure 2 Appearance of the A-F5000
HP firewall modules
The HP firewall modules are developed based on the Open Application Architecture (OAA) for
carrier-level customers.