Winfrasoft vs. Celestix Competitive Analysis This analysis paper asks some pertinent questions that you will probably be asking your self when looking to implement a solution of any kind. We have laid out the headline questions and answered them as they relate to both a Winfrasoft and a Celestix solution leaving you to reach your own conclusions.       Winfrasoft vs. Celestix Competitive Analysis       CPU-Z Results CPU-Z is a freeware application that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system. The following samples were taken on a Winfrasoft ISA4000W appliance (HP DL160) and on a Celestix MSA3000i (Scorpio-X) for comparison purposes. The Winfrasoft ISA4000W-HP (HP G5) may be slightly more expensive than the Celestix MSA3000i, however, for a resource demanding role such as a Firewall, Proxy, SSL VPN, URL filterer etc, which is desktop or a server class architecture more appropriate? HW \ Model Winfrasoft ISA4000W-HP Celestix MSA3000i Observations Type Intel Xeon Intel Pentium 4 Server vs. Desktop class CPU. Cores 4 1 4 times the number of physical CPU cores. Threads 4 2 (Via Hyper threading) 4 times the number of concurrent threads that can be processed, 2 times if HT is used in the calculation. Bus Speed 333MHz 133MHz 2.5 times faster bus speed - used for NIC's, HDD etc. Front Side Bus 1333MHz 533MHz 2.5 times faster FSB speed - used for RAM access etc. CPU Speed 2GHz (6x333MHz) 3GHz (23x133MHz) Higher P4 GHz is achieved by large multiplications (23) of a slow board speed which may be useful on desktops but is not ideal for servers. L1 Data cache 128Kb 16Kb 8 times more L1 data cache inside the CPU. Level 2 cache 12Mb 1Mb 12 times more L2 cache inside the CPU. Winfrasoft ISA4000W-HP: Celestix MSA3000i: