Imagine a sudden flood of traffic that knocks your website offline in minutes. That is a DDoS attack, and it can cost you sales, reputation, and peace of mind. The Radware DefensePro 504420, 50 Gbps RJ-45 2U DDoS Protection Appliance is built to stop those attacks before they reach your servers. It is a dedicated hardware device that monitors traffic, detects threats in seconds, and blocks malicious flows while keeping legitimate users online. If you run an e-commerce site, a financial service, or any online business, you need this level of protection to stay open and trustworthy.
Radware DefensePro 504420, 50 Gbps RJ-45 2U DDoS Protection Appliance
Large-scale attacks can overwhelm bandwidth, crash applications, and damage brand confidence. The problem matters because downtime means lost revenue and damaged customer trust. This appliance solves the issue by providing up to 300 Gbps of mitigation capacity, real-time signatures that react in less than 18 seconds, and flexible deployment modes that fit any network design. With Radwares proven technology, you get a clear, reliable shield that lets you focus on growth instead of fighting attacks.
Key Features
- 50 Gbps licensed throughput with 300 Gbps peak mitigation.
- Supports up to 25 million concurrent sessions.
- 230 million packets per second attack prevention rate.
- Latency under 60 s for seamless user experience.
- Multiple Ethernet ports: 1 GE, 10 GE, 40 GE, 100 GE options.
- Flexible deployment: inline, SPAN, copy port, local or remote out-of-path.
- Advanced block actions: drop, reset, suspend, challenge-response.
- Fail-open/fail-close modes and active-passive clustering for high availability.
- Hot-swappable dual power supplies and internal overload protection.
- Full IPv6 support, VLAN tagging, MPLS, GRE, and other tunneling protocols.
Specifications
| Category |
x4420 Series |
| Hardware Platform |
OnDemand Switch HTQe |
| Performance |
|
| OnDemand Scalable Throughput Licenses1 |
DP model 504420 – 50 Gbps |
| Max Mitigation Capacity/Throughput |
300Gbps |
| Max Concurrent Sessions |
25,000,000 |
| Max DDoS Flood Attack Prevention Rate |
230,000,000 pps |
| Latency |
< 60 micro seconds |
| Real-time Signatures |
Detect and protect attacks in less than 18 seconds |
| Inspection Ports |
|
| 10/100/1000 Copper Ethernet |
- |
| 1 GE |
20 (SFP+) |
| 10 GE |
| 40 GE |
4 (QSFP+) |
| 100 GE |
4 (QSFP28) |
| Management Ports |
|
| 10/100/1000 Copper Ethernet |
2 |
| Management Console |
RJ-45 |
| Operation Mode |
|
| Network Operation |
Transparent L2 Forwarding/IP Forwarding |
| Deployment Modes |
In-line; SPAN Port Monitoring; Copy Port Monitoring; local out-of-path; Out-of-path mitigation (scrubbing center solution) |
| Tunneling protocol |
VLAN Tagging, L2TP, MPLS, GRE, GTP, IPinIP |
| IPv6 |
Yes |
| Jumbo Frame |
Supported |
| Block Actions |
Drop packet, reset (source, destination, both), suspend (source, src port, destination, dest port or any combination), Challenge-Response for TCP, HTTP and DNS suspicious traffic |
| High Availability |
|
| Fail-open / fail-close2 |
Internal fail-open/fail-close for copper ports, Internal fail-close for fiber ports |
| Dual Power Supply |
Yes, hot swappable |
| Advanced internal overload mechanism3 |
Yes |
| Active-passive cluster |
Yes |
| Physical |
|
| Dimensions (W x D x H) mm |
424 x 537 x 88 mm (2U) |
| Weight |
18.7 kg (41.2 lbs) |
| Power Supply (Auto-range) |
AC: 100-120V/200-240V, 47-63 HzDC: -36 – -72V |
| Power Consumption |
890W |
| Heat Dissipation |
2930 BTU/h |
| Operating Temperature |
0-40°C (32-104°F) |
| Humidity |
5% to 95% (non-condensing) |
| Safety |
CE LVD( EN 60950-1), CB - IEC 60950-1, CCC, cTUVus, AS/NZS 60950.1 |
| EMC |
CE EMC (EU directive 2004/108/EC), FCC Part 15B Class A, ICES-003, VCCI, C-TICK |
| Other Certifications |
RoHS Compliant (EU directive 2011/65/EU) |
| Support |
Certainty Support Program |
