Sophos 1RU Security Appliance Ports setup - at a Glance

Posted by undefined Saif Khan on 2024 Sep 10th

Sophos Distributed Firewall series a.k.a. 1RU security appliance consists of the following Sophos XGS Firewall modes;

Sophos XGS 2100, Sophos XGS 2300

Sophos XGS 3100, Sophos XGS 3300

Sophos XGS 4300, Sophos XGS 4500

There are lots of differences in the make up of these models. Lets see the physical differences at a glance.

All of them have the new Dual Processor Architecture.

There are also big performance differences amongst them. These are shown in our comparison table.

The entire Firewall suite can be managed via a cloud central management called Sophos Central.

We always recommend that every business should deploy in High Availability (HA) architecture. This enable best availability of network resources. Example of HA deployment is shown here.

A security firewall's brain is the OS. Here are the OS options for Sophos Firewalls, regardless of model;

Our recommendation for SFOS is the Xstream Protection. Other features can be added on upon need.