The TippingPoint Core Controller is deployed as a 'bump-in-the wire' network element for up to three 10Gbps network links. Traffic entering the Core Controller is intelligently flow balanced to a bank of TippingPoint IPS's where traffic inspection and enforcement are performed. Malicious and unwanted traffic is blocked, and clean traffic is returned to the Core Controller for distribution to the appropriate 10Gbps egress link, allowing organizations to scale security traffic inspection and enforcement.
 

The TippingPoint Core Controller enables 10Gbps links to be protected by the TippingPoint IPS while ensuring high availability, performance, low latency and security accuracy. All TippingPoint appliances are purpose-built with the reliability to go in-line in enterprise and service provider networks. In addition, the Core Controller's high availability features; including redundant configurability, built-in zero power bypass (Smart ZPHA), IPS heartbeat monitoring, link down synchronization and hardware watchdogs; allow an unprecedented level of redundancy configuration to eliminate single points of failure.

The TippingPoint Core Controller offers organizations an economical entry for IPS protection on existing 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) networks by allowing them to purchase the IPS capacity initially required, and then add more capacity as traffic inspection needs increase. Organizations with existing TippingPoint IPS units initially purchased for lower speed network links can redeploy those units with the Core Controller for 10GbE protection. TippingPoint Core Controller's flexible deployment options provide a "pay-as-you-grow" model that allows organizations to easily leverage existing investments and increase their IPS capacity as bandwidth and security requirements evolve.