The product is licensed in several variants. Most recently, the version name has changed to NGX. Then the name changed to NG AI which meant NG with Application Intelligence, and the minor revisions became known as Rxx e.g. Then the version changed to NG meaning Next Generation and minor revisions became known as Feature Packs. Initially, the product used a traditional decimal version number such as 3.0, 4.0 and 4.1 (although 4.1 was also called Check Point 2000 on the packaging). The VPN-1 version naming can be rather confusing because Check Point have changed the version numbering scheme several times through the product's history. On ApCheck Point announced the general availability of the Gaia operating system as part of the R75.40 release. This new OS is positioned to finally replace both existing operating systems at some point in the future. Upon completing the acquisition of Nokia Security Appliance Business in 2009, Checkpoint started the project named Gaia aimed at merging two different operating systems-SecurePlatform and IPSO-into one. VPN-1 running on the Nokia platform on IPSO is often called a Nokia Firewall as if it were a different product, but in fact it runs the same VPN-1 software as other platforms. See the table in the Version History section below for details. Previous versions of Check Point firewall supported other operating systems including Solaris, HP-UX and IBM AIX. Check Point Gaia (a Check Point Linux distribution, unifying IPSO and SecurePlatform into a single operating system).Check Point SecurePlatform (a Check Point Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, often called SPLAT).These appliances run the SecurePlatform operating system.Īs of version R70, VPN-1 supports the following operating systems: This is different from most other commercial firewall products like Cisco PIX and Juniper firewalls where the firewall software is part of a proprietary operating system.Īlthough traditionally sold as software only, VPN-1 is also sold in appliance form as Check Point's UTM-1 (starting 2006) and Power-1 appliances.
The VPN-1 software is installed on a separate operating system, which provides the protocol stack, file system, process scheduling and other features needed by the product.
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