Introduction
Falcon Acceleration Cards Getting Started Guide R80.20 | 5
Introduction
The Check Point Falcon Acceleration Cards provide a high performance, low-latency, flexible and
scalable solution for Check Point 5900, 6800, 15000, and 23000 appliances.
Falcon Acceleration Card is a dedicated network I/O card solution with an integrated Network
Processor, which supports multiple connectivity options at 10 GbE (CPAC-Falcon-10G-B) and 40
GbE (CPAC-Falcon-40G-B).
The Check Point Falcon Acceleration Cards provide:
•For HTTPS Inspection acceleration - increase in the throughput by utilizing the dedicated
hardware engines on the acceleration cards.
•For Threat Prevention - increase in the throughput by implementing Deep Inspection in the
acceleration cards hardware. This applies to Threat Prevention with SandBlast Zero Day
protections and to NGFW.
•For Firewall-only acceleration - increase in the throughput for Firewall-only traffic, low traffic
latency, session rate improvement.
•VSX and QoS support.
Supported Falcon Acceleration Cards
and Security Appliances
Falcon Acceleration Cards available for Security Appliances:
Acceleration Module Description
CPAC-Falcon-10G-B Falcon-10G Acceleration Module with 4 x 10 GbE Fiber
Ports
CPAC-Falcon-40G-B Falcon-40G Acceleration Module with 2 x 40 GbE Fiber
Ports
Supported Security Appliances for each Falcon Acceleration Card:
Supported Security Appliance Models
Falcon-10G
5900
6800
15400, 15600
23500, 23800, 23900
Falcon-40G
5900
6800
15400, 15600
23500, 23800, 23900
