| Gympie Regional Council’s (Council) current firewalls are due for replacement. With the introduction of the new Fibre internet Links, it is now time to upgrade to the latest Next Generation Firewall Technology.
Council is currently operating two independent Cisco 5510 ASA firewalls, whose Internet connections are a 10mb BDSL connection and a FTTN NBN connection.
Council is in the process of commissioning 2 x 100mb symmetrical fibre internet services from the same ISP and require new firewalls to protect these connections. (By the time of the issue of this RFQ, the 10mb BDSL connection may be disconnected).
The current scope of work is to supply and commission two new Next Generation firewalls connecting to the 2 x 100mb/s symmetrical internet links. These new Internet links are in different buildings (242 Mary St and 2 Caledonian Hill Gympie) and these building are connected with a highly resilient 10GB/s Wireless link, which employs a “stretched VLAN” architecture (Same IP Subnet).
Based on future cloud enabled application architecture, council may decide to increase the bandwidth of the Internet connections to 200mb and would need the capacity of the firewalls to handle this throughput with the Next Generation Services enabled.
It would be highly desirable it the firewalls could be configured in an active-active configuration to enable the load balancing of the Internet services.
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