The Challenge
Organizations worldwide are increasingly using IP-based technologies to support critical applications on both Internet and Private WAN links. VPN technologies, in particular, are making it possible to gain competitive advantage by connecting employees, partners, and customers using the Internet. Although the benefits of Internet technologies are undeniable, the resulting flood of traffic can cause severe congestion on limited WAN/Internet links. Too often, bandwidth hungry discretionary traffic overwhelms business critical traffic on these links.

The Solution
Check Point solves the network congestion problem with FloodGate-1, a policy based, quality of service (QoS) solution for private WAN and Internet links. It optimizes network performance by assigning priority to business critical traffic based on relative merit. For example, ERP, database, or e-commerce applications running on a corporate VPN, can be prioritized over less important Internet traffic. By aligning network resources with business goals, FloodGate-1 makes it possible to realize the true potential of IP networks.
 

• Flexible QoS control with weighted priorities, guarantees, and limits
• Integration with Check Point's VPN-1 and FireWall-1 products
• Enterprise policy management server
• Graphical real time traffic monitor

• Reliable performance for business critical traffic such as VPN, ERP, and e-commerce 
• Eliminate the need to deploy separate products for VPN, firewall, and bandwidth management 
• Centrally modify policies without the need to reconfigure each enforcement point
• Easily identify sources of network congestion