Do we still need Gi Firewall for 3G/UMTS/HSPA network ?

Roland Dobbins rdobbins at cisco.com
Thu Apr 9 16:48:34 UTC 2009


On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:21 AM, Alexander Harrowell wrote:

> I would think that, however you are providing IP addresses, any  
> ingress point
> to a GSM core network ought to be carefully policed on security  
> grounds.

Sure.  But stateful firewalls aren't required to protect that  
infrastructure, stateless ACLs in hardware will work quite well.

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