Up to 25,000 concurrent users at up to 5 Gbps of throughput, the highest capacity in the hardware line. It's built for the largest enterprise networks and multi-site organizations.

It lets multiple appliances share policy and reporting as a coordinated group instead of being managed as separate, disconnected units. That's useful once an organization needs more than one 1010 to cover its full traffic load or wants a failover path between units.

Decrypting and inspecting HTTPS traffic is CPU-intensive, and at the 1010's throughput ceiling, general-purpose processing alone would slow it down. Dedicated SSL acceleration hardware keeps full SSL inspection running at full speed instead of becoming the constraint.

Just the network interface, the same pattern as the 910 and 910B. The 1010 ships with copper 10 Gigabit ports, and the 1011 is the identical appliance with fiber optic ports for data centers standardized on fiber.

Yes. WCCP support lets the 1010 integrate with compatible routers and switches already in your network, which matters for large deployments that need to redirect traffic to the appliance without redesigning the whole network path.