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Chapter 1
Overview
The PA-7050 firewall is a high performance modular firewall designed for large enterprise and carrier
class environments. The multi-blade chassis has hot-swappable line cards to enable expandability as
needs grow and can provide up to 120 Gbps of throughput when fully loaded with six Network
Processing Cards (NPCs). Dedicated High Availability HA1 (control) ports are available as well as
dedicated 80 gigabit (when both HSCI ports are connected) QSFP HA ports used for HA2 (data link)
and HA3 (packet forwarding) to provide full hardware redundancy in an active/passive or active/active
configurations. A dedicated log card handles all log processing and uses two pairs of drives, each pair in
a RAID 1 configuration, to provide two terabytes of log storage. The chassis can use either AC or DC
power supplies that are installed in the front of the chassis.
This chapter describes the features of the front and back panel of the PA-7050 firewall. For details on
the cards that can be installed in the front slots of the chassis, see “PA-7050 Modules and Interface Card
Overview” on page 13.
See the following topics:
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“Front Panel (AC)” on page 6
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“Back Panel (AC)” on page 9
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“Front Panel (DC)” on page 10
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“Back Panel (DC)” on page 12
