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"Firewalls will soon be history"
A must have for enterprises to tackle security threats, firewalls will soon be thing of past, contends Foundry
Firewalls and security software products are a must for enterprises to help them deal with the deluge of attacks from spammers, hackers and viruses. However, deploying firewalls and other security software products in enterprises, will soon be thing of past, forecasts Chandra Kopparapu, vice-president sales, Asia Pacific, Foundry Networks.
“If I need a firewall and a switch, why do I need separate boxes for them? Why can’t someone make a single box that has both?” asks Kopparapu.
Drawing an analogy with a one-arm router, Kopparapu says that companies in past made a lot of money and a lot of products around a one-arm router. “But not anymore. The same thing will happen with firewalls”, contends Kopparapu.
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lol Chandra Kopparapu, Go back to school!
In a typical building you need a load more switch ports
and your playing havoc with a properly layered design switches are acess layer firewalls are distribution or core (could be both)
or did he meen the toy routers that have some switch ports and a firewall
I have to agree with Neuromancer on this one. I’m not saying it’s impossible to combine both firewalls and switches, but it doesn’t seem like something that would even be practical or that could ever be considered “best practice” for that matter.
I would have to say that this guy needs to go back to networking school!
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