The Check Point Advantage FireWall-1 is built with Stateful Inspection, a technology patented by Check Point and designed to deliver superior performance with the highest level of network security.
Stateful inspection offers multiple performance advantages, including enhanced throughput.
This eliminates the burdensome context switching required by older generation, application layer firewalls - there is no need to copy packets between the firewall application and the operating system. Additionally, a reduction in CPU overhead is achieved by running the Stateful Inspection engine inside the operating system kernel. Together, these technologies give FireWall-1 uncompromising performance in securing today's connected enterprises. Measuring Throughput Throughput, the ability of a firewall to inspect and then forward network traffic, is one of the key performance indicators for a firewall. If the firewall process cannot keep up with the speed of a given network link, bandwidth is wasted.