Abstract

Reflex Security, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to measure the performance of the vendor’s Reflex Interceptor 1000, a network security switch with eight GbE ports (four in, four out) that provides 1 Gigabit (Gbps) throughput for medium to large enterprises.

Engineers measured the performance of the Interceptor 1000 across four pairs of GbE interfaces, both with and without exposing the device to a taxing load of security threats. Engineers also measured the number of concurrent TCP connections sustained across the Interceptor 1000 and examined how the unit responds during an invoked power failure. Tests were conducted in August 2007.