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pfSense Plus is a fully-featured firewall, VPN and router solution |
TNSR is a Ultra high-performance VPN and Edge router, the Military grade solution |
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Two Products Separated by Feature Set, Scale, and Manageability
Performance wise, pfSense can nearly saturate 1-10 Gbps WAN links when forwarding Iperf, or even IMIX, traffic. While the product is deployed across every vertical and continent for more demanding firewall and VPN applications, WAN link throughput will decline due to the limitations of kernel-based packet processing. As throughput needs increase, especially where application (smaller packet) traffic and more robust encryption ciphers are used (high-performance VPN connections) come into play, TNSR soars in its ability to saturate 1,10, 40, and 50 Gbps native or bonded WAN links, nearly impervious to packet size. While fully-featured from an edge routing (including L2, L3, and L4 ACLs) and site-to-site IPsec VPN perspective, TNSR does not address common firewall use cases like iDS/IPS, content filtering. Finally, TNSR - as a high-performance router-based solution - is not equipped with a GUI, but rather a CLI and API, the latter of which lends itself to more advanced and automated configuration, management, and monitoring approaches. |
A Rundown of Technical Specifications
A high-level comparison table is shown below. More detailed feature lists for pfSense software and TNSR software are here and here respectively. Product documentation provides the most definitive feature detail.
What is TNSR High-Performance Edge and Core Routing ?
The need for router speeds will only increase. But fixed-configuration, proprietary, hardware-centric edge networking solutions are a thing of the past. The modern world will be connected with high-performance network function virtualized (NFV) software routers at the edge and in the core. TNSR software provides 2.5G, 10G, 25G, 40G, even 100 Gbps, or more routing via "ASIC-speed" software on commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware.
by get advantage of Vector Packet Processing (VPP) & Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)
A Netgate TNSR Edge routers is on backbone & working with your downstream pfsense firewall clusters...
Netgate TNSR is a ultra high-performance Edge router, capable 2.5G, 10G, 25G, 100G WAN traffic
- Ideal for enterprise-class businesses, educational institutions, government agencies, and service providers
- High-performance router and site-to-site VPN solution
- Extraordinary scale due to the power of Vector Packet Processing (VPP) and Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)
- Automated management via RESTCONF API or CLI
- Cloud / IDC / server clusters deployment
Military grade TNSR Appliances : Netgate 6100, Netgate 8200, Netgate 8300, Netgate 1537, Netgate 1541
TNSR is an outstanding high-performance edge router, military grade with industry-leading price-performance and scalability
- Ideal for demanding edge, campus, data center and cloud connectivity environments where high-speed routing and encrypted traffic handling are required
- Software scalable to 10G, 25G, 100G Gbps and beyond
- Vector Packet Processing enables up to two orders of magnitude speed gain over traditional kernel-based packet processing solutions
- Suitable for edge and core routing, site-to-site VPN, cloud connectivity, large scale NAT applications
- Managed through CLI and/or RESTCONF API
US Federal Government of Defense upgraded current pfsense to TNSR, built up 100G IPsec VPN
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