I need some help here.
I work for a large cash-strapped transportation company here in Minnesota.
Like a lot of other large shops, we deploy Cisco gear wherever possible -
including the PIX. We've got about 40,000 employees with revenues of around
$9B.
An information security group was recently formed here, and one of the first
decisions we made was to replace our PIX/Gauntlet infrastructure with Check
Point products. As you can imagine, being cash-strapped requires that we jump
through many hoops to purchase nearly *anything* (including office supplies -
seriously).
We were given several assurances by Check Point (corporate AND the local
office) that they would be available during our initial implementation of the
product. This empty promise has done little to assure us that we made the
right decision about firewall technologies for our company, as nobody from
Check Point has been consistently available to help us. IST (our reseller)
has been our only source of help.
For the last 2 months, we've been asking (begging, really) Check Point for a
specific customer reference - a large company using ClusterXL in multicast
load-share mode, inter-operating with Cisco equipment. Unfortunately, since
Check Point's sales are channel-based, they have no idea what their customers
do with the ClusterXL license. Our reseller has no customers willing to talk
to us about their implementations.
At this point, we're struggling with upper management to keep the Check Point
infrastructure we've already deployed - they're ready to rip it out and replace
it with Cisco PIXes.
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Here's where I need YOUR help
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If you work at a larger company and can provide some insight (either publicly
or anonymously) about ClusterXL in multicast load-share mode and how it has
worked (or not) at your company, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Matt
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