Improve the performance of more resource-heavy security features, such as Threat Prevention and SSL Decryption, by installing the PA-7000-DPC-A. The DPC (data processing card) is a new computing card for the PA-7000 Series firewalls compatible with all prior NPCs. Each DPC adds four additional instances of the PAN-OS data plane, providing 133% of the computing capacity compared to the three data planes on the PA-7000-100G-NPC-A.

You now have the choice to map your PA-3200 Series firewall’s copper HA-1 port to one of the firewall’s available fiber SFP ports. The fiber port enables longer distance HA connectivity for use in data centers and provides the same HA-1 port functionality.

PAN-OS can now recognize 1G SFP transceivers in PA-7000 Series firewall PA-7000-20GQ-NPC and PA-20GQXM-NPC cards. With this feature, you have more control over SFP connectivity and a choice between a rate of 1G or 10G.

You now have support for the use of SR4 transceivers (PAN-QSFP-40GBASE-SR4 or PAN-QSFP28-100GBASE-SR4) that allow a PA-7000 Series firewall’s QSFP/QSFP+ ports to be configured as four interfaces. When broken out with an appropriate breakout-cable the individual QSFP physical interfaces are able to provide four separate 10G or 25G interfaces.