The PA-7000 Series is powered by a scalable architecture for the purpose of applying the appropriate type and volume of processing power to the key functional tasks of networking, security, and management. The PA-7000 Series chassis intelligently distributes processing demands across three subsystems, each with massive amounts of computing power and dedicated memory.
The Network Processing Card (NPC) is dedicated to executing all packet-processing tasks, including networking, traffic classification, and threat prevention. Each NPC has between 64 (first generation) and 144 (second generation) processing cores, all focused on protecting your network at up to 70 Gbps per NPC. Scaling the throughput to the maximum 700 Gbps on the PA-7080, or 420 Gbps on the PA-7050, is as easy as adding a new NPC and allowing the system to determine the best use of the new processing power.
Performance and Capacities
| PA-7080 | PA-7050 | PA-7000
NPC-100G |
PA-3220
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| Firewall throughput (HTTP/appmix) | 600/700 Gbps | 360/420 Gbps | 60/70 Gbps | 17/20 Gbps |
| Threat Prevention throughput (DSRI enabled) | 610 Gbps | 366 Gbps | 61 Gbps | 18 Gbps |
| Threat Prevention throughput (HTTP/ appmix) | 270/330 Gbps | 162/198 Gbps | 27/33 Gbps | 8.1/11.1 Gbps |
| IPsec VPN throughput | 280 Gbps | 168 Gbps | 28 Gbps | 8.7 Gbps |
| Max sessions | 320M | 192M | 32M | 8M |
| New sessions per second | 4.56M | 2.73M | 456,000 | 225,000 |
| Virtual System (base/max) | 25/225 | 25/225 | – | – |
Hardware Specifications
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