PA-820
Compact, powerful protection (PA-820)
Palo Alto Networks PA-820 brings ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewall capabilities to organizations’ branch offices as well as midsize businesses.
PA-820 Highlights
• World’s first ML-Powered NGFW
• Eight-time Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant® for Network Firewalls
• Leader in the Forrester WaveTM: Enterprise Firewalls, Q3 2020
• Highest Security Effectiveness score in the 2019 NSS Labs NGFW Test Report, with 100% of evasions blocked
• Extends visibility and security to all devices, including unmanaged IoT devices, without the need to deploy additional sensors
• Supports high availability with active/active and active/passive modes
• Delivers predictable performance with security services
• Features a silent, fanless design with an optional redundant power supply for branch and home offices
• Simplifies deployment of large numbers of firewalls with optional Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)
• Eight-time Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant® for Network Firewalls
• Leader in the Forrester WaveTM: Enterprise Firewalls, Q3 2020
• Highest Security Effectiveness score in the 2019 NSS Labs NGFW Test Report, with 100% of evasions blocked
• Extends visibility and security to all devices, including unmanaged IoT devices, without the need to deploy additional sensors
• Supports high availability with active/active and active/passive modes
• Delivers predictable performance with security services
• Features a silent, fanless design with an optional redundant power supply for branch and home offices
• Simplifies deployment of large numbers of firewalls with optional Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)
| Table 1: PA-820 Performance and Capacities 1 | |
| Firewall throughput (HTTP/appmix)2 | 1.8/1.6 Gbps |
| Threat prevention throughput (HTTP/appmix)3 | 850/900 Mbps |
| IPsec VPN throughput4 | 1.3 Gbps |
| Max sessions | 128,000 |
| New sessions per second5 | 8,600 |
- Results were measured on PAN-OS 10.0.
- Firewall throughput is measured with App-ID and logging enabled, using 64KB HTTP/appmix transactions.
- Threat Prevention throughput is measured with App-ID, IPS, antivirus, antispyware, WildFire, file blocking, and logging enabled, utilizing 64 KB HTTP/ appmix transactions.
- IPsec VPN throughput is measured with 64 KB HTTP transactions and logging enabled
- New sessions per second is measured with application-override utilizing 1 byte HTTP transactions.
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Frikkie Botha –
I have deployed multiple of these units for Enterprise customers. The PA-820 from Palo Alto Networks handles Network traffic in excess of 840Mbps like a breeze. The 8x Gigabit SFP ports makes it ideal for a Data Center environment.