Sophos XGS 8500 Enterprise Next-Gen Firewall

Description

The Sophos XGS 8500 is the most powerful security appliance in the Sophos portfolio, engineered for large-scale enterprise environments and data centers that require extreme performance. Driven by a high-end dual-processor Xstream Architecture, the XGS 8500 utilizes a dedicated Xstream Flow Processor to hardware-accelerate trusted traffic while its multi-core enterprise CPU performs deep packet inspection (DPI) at wire speed.

Enterprise-Grade Connectivity & Unrivaled Scalability

• 100GbE Connectivity: The XGS 8500 comes standard with 2 x QSFP28 (100G/40G) ports, providing massive fiber uplinks to your core network infrastructure.

• High-Density Port Array: Out of the box, it features 12 x SFP+ 10GbE fiber ports and 8 x GbE copper ports, ensuring elite-level connectivity for high-density server farms and backbone switches.

• Quad Flexi Port Expansion: With four expansion slots, the XGS 8500 offers the highest modularity in the range. You can add more 100G/40G ports, high-density 10G fiber modules, or multi-gigabit copper modules as your datacenter evolves.

Maximum Resilience and Threat Intelligence

• World-Class Threat Protection: Boasting 34 Gbps of Threat Protection throughput, it uses AI-driven sandboxing and SophosLabs deep learning to identify and stop zero-day ransomware before it enters your network.

• RAID-1 NVMe SSD Redundancy: To ensure zero data loss for logs and forensics, the XGS 8500 is equipped with dual redundant 960 GB NVMe SSDs in a RAID-1 configuration.

Sophos XGS 8500 Technical Specifications