Sophos XGS series

Sophos announced the expansion of its nextgeneration firewall portfolio with two new high-end, enterprise-grade XGS Series appliances. The new XGS 7500 and 8500 models provide unrivaled performance and protection for large enterprise and campus deployments, broadening market opportunities for the channel partners that serve them.

The new XGS 7500 and 8500 models deliver industry-best modular connectivity; highly scalable software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) features; trusted traffic and application acceleration; high performance Transport Layer Security (TLS) inspection; threat protection; and enterprise-grade, high-availability and redundancy capabilities. Featuring high performance Xstream flow processors and central processing units (CPUs) with enterprise-grade acceleration, the models offer roughly 50% faster throughput than industry averages in their class:

• Up to 190 gigabits per second (Gbps) firewall throughput

• Up to 141 Gbps Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) virtual private network (VPN) throughput

• Up to 93 Gbps intrusion prevention system (IPS) throughput

• Up to 76 Gbps next-generation firewall (NGFW) throughput

• Up to 34 Gbps threat protection throughput

• Up to 24 Gbps Xstream Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and TLS inspection

• Support for up to 58 million concurrent connections

• Support for up to 1.7 million new connections per second

Additional highlights include:

• Up to two times better energy efficiency than the industry average when using IPsec VPN

• High speed connectivity with two QSFP28 ports supporting speeds of up to 100 Gbps

• High capacity, high-speed random access memory (RAM) and non-volatile memory express (NVMe) solid-state drives for improved compatibility and storage

• Unique programmable Xstream architecture delivers unmatched levels of protection, performance and visibility

• Intelligent TLS inspection guarantees industry leading performance, flexibility and transparency into all encrypted traffic

• Deep packet inspection (DPI) engine delivers threat protection in a single streaming engine for antivirus, IPS, web, app control, and TLS inspection

• Network FastPath technology ensures automatic and policy-based intelligent offloading of trusted traffic processing at wire speed

Sophos Firewall is a key pillar of Sophos’ SASE strategy. It provides a more simplified, scalable and secure solution over traditional remote access VPN, and integrates with Sophos ZTNA (zero trust network access) under one unified management plane.