Quantum Spark 1500, 1600, and 1800 Appliance Series Overview

1500 Appliances

Quantum Spark 1500 appliance series includes the 1530, 1550, 1570, 1590, and 1570R appliances. These appliances support the Check Point Software Blade architecture and provide independent modular and centrally managed security building blocks. You can quickly enable and configure the Software Blades to meet your specific security needs.

Quantum Spark 1530, 1550, 1570, 1590, and 1570R appliances deliver integrated unified threat management to protect your organization from today's emerging threats. Based on proven Check Point security technologies such as Stateful Inspection, Application Intelligence, and SMART (Security Management Architecture), the appliances provides simplified deployment while delivering uncompromising levels of security.

These appliances run an embedded version of the Gaia operating system. The appliances include core configuration elements such as Gaia Clish The default shell of the Gaia CLI interface, SNMPv2/3 and routing stack implementations. In addition to the Gaia features, Gaia Embedded operating system contains support for built-in network switches, wireless networks, 4G LTE Long Term Evolution - a standard for wireless broadband communication for mobile devices and data terminals, based on the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA technologies. It increases the capacity and speed using a different radio interface together with core network improvements. Internet connectivity, multiple Internet connections (more than 2) in High Availability or Load Sharing mode, Policy Based Routing, and DDNS support. Quick deployment with USB is supported for all appliances, and with SD card and Dual SIM card for the 1570 / 1590 appliances.

This guide describes all aspects that apply to the Quantum Spark 1530 / 1550, 1570R, and 1570 / 1590 Appliances.

1600 and 1800 Appliances

The Quantum Spark 1600 / 1800 Security Appliances, part of the new 1600 / 1800 Appliance family, deliver enterprise-grade security, run the R80 code base in an all-in-one security solution to protect Medium Business employees, network and data from cyber-theft.

The 1600 / 1800 Security Gateways offer integrated, multi-layered security in a 1U form factor, a high performance platform which is easy and simple to configure and manage. The Security Gateway A dedicated Check Point server that runs Check Point software to inspect traffic and enforce Security Policies for connected network resources. offers firewall, VPN, Anti-Virus Check Point Software Blade on a Security Gateway that uses real-time virus signatures and anomaly-based protections from ThreatCloud to detect and block malware at the Security Gateway before users are affected. Acronym: AV., Application Visibility and Control, URL Filtering Check Point Software Blade on a Security Gateway that allows granular control over which web sites can be accessed by a given group of users, computers or networks. Acronym: URLF., Email Security, and SandBlast Zero-Day Protection.

Quantum Spark 1600 / 1800 Security Appliances can be managed either locally in a Web interface, or centrally by means of a cloud-based Quantum Spark Security Management Portal (Quantum Spark Portal).