The SonicWALL Network Security Appliance (NSA) E7500 is an industry first - a multi-core Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliance that delivers enterprise-class deep packet inspection without significantly impacting network throughput. Combining powerful deep packet inspection firewall, with multiple layers of protection technology and a suite of high-availability features, the NSA E7500 is the ultimate choice for a variety of enterprise deployments including distributed environments, campus networks and data centers. The NSA E7500 is engineered to be the most scalable, high performance and reliable multi-function threat appliance in its class. It prevents against a vast spectrum of network attacks with unprecedented speed. This protection is enabled through the NSA E7500 multi-core architecture, a parallel performance design for ultra high-speed threat protection and deployment scalability. Taking protection to new levels of control is application firewall, a set of customizable protection tools that empowers administrators with precise control over network traffic. Operational reliability is delivered through a high availability suite of features at the hardware and system level to optimize uptime and improve security coverage. The NSA E7500 offers enterprise customers an extensive array of advanced network and configuration flexibility features, ease-of-integration and deployment flexibility designed to provide lowered management complexity, and unrivaled value.