Tested: Barracuda firewall X201
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In the beginning, Barracuda produced appliances to combat spam. By the time the spam wave reached its peak, their devices had become so successful that they started to expand their product portfolio. Today, the manufacturer has various firewalls and web filters as well as storage and backup products in its delivery program. Recently, the established Barracuda NG Firewall was joined by a new product line that is aimed primarily at small and medium-sized companies: the Barracuda firewall.
In our lab, we tested the smallest device in the new firewall series; it comes in two versions. The X200 [1] is the smallest firewall with four Gigabit Ethernet ports (Figure 1). The ADMIN team tested the X201 version, which also has a WLAN interface. The smallest firewall has an external power supply, whereas the larger devices – X300, X400, and X600 – are designed for rack installation and have a built-in power supply [2]. The models also differ in terms of performance: The X200/201 promises 1Gbps firewall throughput and 200Mbps for VPNs. For the top-of-the-range X600 model, these are 5Gbps and 700Mbps for VPNs.
Figure 1: The X200 model (left) is the smallest in the new Barracuda
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