Comprehensive solutionwith a performance andprice point making itaffordable for branchoffices to have best-of-breed enterprise-classsecurityDATA SHEETOVERVIEWCompanies of all sizes are being attacked at an unprecedented rate.Most attacks are deliberate, but non-intentional ones do occur. Theyare, however, always serious and can be disastrous. Attacks can be inthe form of network outages, they can claim valuable bandwidth fromproductivity applications and in some instances even perpetrate thetheft of company or personal information from unwilling individuals.Because of these attacks, networks today require comprehensive networkprotection along with multi-zone functionality allowing granular seg-mentation for better control over security policies and network traffic.Solutions up to now have included various security appliances thatwere not integrated and did not provide a single means of management.3Com® X5 and X506 Unified Security Platforms deliver unprecedentedthreat protection for organizations with several branch offices ornumerous teleworkers—helping prevent business disruptions, revenueloss and damage to an organization’s reputation caused by securitybreaches.Built on the award-winning 3Com TippingPoint™ Intrusion ProtectionSystem (IPS) architecture, the X5 and X506 Unified Security Platformscombine industry-leading IPS capabilities with virtual private network(VPN) support, stateful packet inspection firewall, application band-width management, audio/video IP multicast routing and web contentfiltering.This comprehensive security solution safeguards the network fromattacks and misuse, and delivers policy-based multisite connectivity forreal-time business-critical applications such as Voice over IP (VoIP).High-availability features help ensure wirespeed traffic flow even inthe event of network or internal device error or loss of power to theprimary device.3Com® X5 and X506 Unified Security Platformsfrom left: 3Com X5 and X506 Unified Security Platforms