SonicWall 03-SSC-2981 Gen 7 NSa 4700 security appliance with

SonicWall NSa 4700 (03‑SSC‑2981) – Gen‑7 Next‑Gen Firewall + 3‑Year Advanced Protection

Overview

The SonicWall NSa 4700, SKU 03‑SSC‑2981, is a Gen‑7, 1U rack‑mount next‑generation firewall built for medium to large enterprises. This SKU comes bundled with 3 years of Advanced Protection plus 1 year of Cloud Secure Edge, delivering a full security stack: intrusion prevention, anti‑malware, application control, content filtering, deep packet inspection, and centralized cloud‑based management.On the hardware side, it delivers 18 Gbps firewall throughput, 9.5 Gbps threat prevention, and 11 Gbps VPN throughput. It features a high port density: 24 × 1 GbE RJ‑45, 6 × SFP+ (multi-rate: 10G/5G/2.5G/1G), plus USB and console ports. The device supports up to 3,000 IPsec VPN tunnels and 115,000 new connections per second, making it ideal for data center edges, enterprise perimeters, or high-capacity branch aggregation.Running SonicOS 7, the NSa 4700 supports SD‑WAN, zero‑touch provisioning, high‑speed SSL/TLS inspection, and full policy control. It also offers expandable storage for logs and data, and dual fans for reliability.

Key Features

• 18 Gbps firewall throughput — supports very high‑speed network traffic.

• 9.5 Gbps threat prevention — deep inspection, IPS, anti-malware, SSL decryption.

• 6 multi-rate SFP+ ports — 10/5/2.5/1 Gb connectivity for up-link flexibility.

• 3,000 VPN tunnels — supports a large number of secure site‑to‑site or remote clients.

• 3-Year Advanced Protection + 1-Year Cloud Secure Edge — complete security coverage and centralized management.

• SonicOS 7 — next-gen OS with SD-WAN, zero-touch setup, and high-performance DPI.

Technical Specifications