I personally have not seen it done in large environments. Hardware isn't there yet. I've seen it done in small business environments. Not a fan of the idea. -Hammer- "I was a normal American nerd" -Jack Herer On 12/06/2011 03:16 PM, Holmes,David A wrote:
Some firewall vendors are proposing to collapse all Internet edge functions into a single device (border router, firewall, IPS, caching engine, proxy, etc.). A general Internet edge design principle has been the "defense in depth" concept. Is anyone collapsing all Internet edge functions into one device?
Regards,
David
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