Wednesday, May 23, 2007

New Generation 2 MARS Appliances

Well you may of heard rumours of a range of new MARS appliances, and yep they are now orderable, and soon be available!


Gen2 Part Codes

CS-MARS-110R-K9
CS-MARS-110-K9
CS-MARS-210-K9
CS-MARS-GC2-K9
CSMARS-110-LIC-K9=

All the new MARS G2 appliances are 2U in form factor, have dual-PSU and have fewer disk drives, which offers an increase in overall reliability

The Cisco Security MARS Gen2 Appliances are available for the moment in 4 different models.

These are the 110R, the 110, 210 and a new Global Controller GC2.



These appliances are what is termed the next-generation appliances. See the specs below..


They will deliver upto 2x the storage and 1.5x the performance of the old generation 1 appliances.

These new appliances will run the v5 track of software, which offers many new enhancements.

New Gen2 Software Enhancements

A new Enhanced pnrestore options to restore data in time slices
New Support for raw messages greater than 500 bytes
A New keyword search process
Super New IP log enhancements for viewing IPS IP packets
A licensing upgrade will be available for customers on 110R to upgrade to the 110 platform.

More Info? Contact your local Cisco sales rep.

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