Experience unparalleled value and performance with the Netgate® 8300 Security Gateway powered by pfSense® Plus software. The Netgate 8300 is tailored for medium to large business, xSP, MSP/MSSP with high connectivity and stability requirements. This unit is enterprise-ready, featuring Netgate’s most expandable chassis and hot-swappable PSUs, ensuring mission critical reliability and ease of maintenance. This security gateway boasts a formidable 2.0 GHz, 8-core, 16-thread Intel® Xeon® D-1733NT processor with Intel AVX-512 for exceptional Firewall and VPN performance. The Netgate 8300 harnesses the power of Intel AVX-512 to accelerate VPN operations, bolstering throughput and reducing overhead while optimizing core firewall functions for enhanced network security and performance. With quad 10G SFP ports, quad 1G SFP ports, and triple 2.5G RJ-45 ports, plus expandability to 25G and 100G ports via PCIe cards, the Netgate 8300 future-proofs your network infrastructure, scaling effortlessly with your business. The Netgate 8300 maximizes your investment by delivering high-performance throughput at an incredibly competitive cost per gigabit. Compared to the 1541, it boasts a remarkable 47% firewall performance gain, 100% improvement in VPN and routing throughput, and a 175% increase in port density. This compact 1U chassis optimizes space efficiency in server rooms and data centers, ideal for mission-critical deployments requiring robust high availability options and hotswap dual-power capability. Redefine your network standards by offering superior scalability, performance, and cost efficiency that exceeds industry expectations with Netgate’s 8300 Security Gateway. L3 Forwarding (Router) IPERF3 Traffic: 36.7 Gbps Firewall (10k ACLs) IPERF3 Traffic: 26.8 Gbps IPsec VPN (AES-GCM-128 w/AES-NI) IPERF3 Traffic: 14.6 Gbps Netgate 8300 performance tests conducted with pfSense Plus software version 24.03 CPU: Eight Core 2.0 GHz Intel Xeon CPU. Delivers 36 Gbps routing for everyday iPerf3-bidirectional traffic and over 26 Gbps of firewall throughput Network Ports: 11 Independent 1G, 2.5G, and 10G ports. Maximum port flexibility – with 1G, 2.5G, and 10G Ethernet configurable as WAN or LAN across the combination of 11 RJ45 and SFP ports Expandability: 1 x PCIe 3.0 x8 port for half-length low profile cards and 1 xPCIe 4.0 x16 port for full-height three-quarters length cards Storage: 512 GB NVMe 2280 M-Key M.2 SSD Memory: 16 GB DDR4, ECC, 2400MHz via 2x 8 GB (expandable to 32 GB via 2x 16 GB UDIMM) Power: Dual hot-swappable PSU bays. 1 x Internal 500W PSU (hot-swappable) included, 110V/240V AC input Cooling: Active – 7x chassis fans at the rear of the enclosure pfSense Plus software provides the performance, flexibility, reliability, and business assurance expected from leading secure networking applications: Exceptional performance Flexible 3rd-party application options Traditional management mechanisms Proven reliability Complete business assurance support All at a fraction of the cost of proprietary alternatives, pfSense Plus software is the perfect answer. Popular pfSense Plus use cases include firewall, VPN, routing, load balancing, traffic shaping, captive portal, DNS/DHCP Server, IDS/IPS, failover WAN, and more.
