The Firebox X5500e is the highest performance unified threat management appliance from WatchGuard, offering multi-gigabit firewall throughput, built-in application proxies, stateful packet firewall, and full-featured VPN for multi-layered defenses and proactive zero day attack protection. A powerful suite of security service subscriptions are integrated for spyware defense, anti-virus, intrusion prevention, anti-spam, and URL filtering. Advanced networking features, including high availability, Multi-WAN load balancing, VLANs, WAN and VPN failover, and policy-based routing provide the reliability, redundancy, server load balancing, and traffic shaping that demanding, high-speed networks require.