NETASQ U30 - The NG5000-A Appliance; Front Panel

INSTALLATION GUIDE
4. PRESENTATION OF THE APPLIANCES
4.11 The NG5000-A appliance
The NG5000-A appliance has the following characteristics:
Throughput of 8,500 Mbits/s.
2,500,000 concurrent connections.
16 Gigabit interfaces on the front panel and 2 Gigabit ports behind = 18 Gigabit interfaces
50,000 new sessions per second.
On front panel, any of the following extension modules below can be added:
- 4 Gigabit interfaces
- 6 Gigabit interfaces
- 2 fiber Gigabit interfaces
- 4 fiber Gigabit interfaces
- 2 x 10 GB fiber Gigabit interfaces
The NG1000-A can hold up to 24 interfaces (front and rear panels).
4.11.1 Front panel
Depending on the production batch, interfaces on NG5000-A appliances may have one of the
following layouts:
Layout n°1:
Layout n°2:
1. Brackets on both ends of the firewall (handles)
2. LEDs in the hard disk racks indicate disk access (blue, lower LED) and disk installation (yellow, upper
LED)
3. 2 hard disks as the standard configuration (for RAID)
4. 16 gigabit interfaces in the front panel as the standard configuration. As an option, 1*4 or 1*6 copper or
optic fiber modules.
5. LEDs (from left to right): the 1
st
indicates that the appliance is overheating. When the 2
nd
or 3
rd
LED
blinks, this indicates network activity on the management ports located at the back of the firewall. The
4
th
LED indicates disk activity (similar to the blue LED on the disk but without indicating the active disk).
Lastly, the 5
th
LED, the power indicator, shows whether the firewall is on.
6. Reset button: resets the firewall electrically.
7. Power button: button for shutting down or turning on the firewall.
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