HUAWEI HiSecEngine USG6500F Series Firewalls Datasheet
HUAWEI HiSecEngine USG6500F Series Firewalls Datasheet
1 Product Highlights
Excellent performance
By leveraging fresh-new hardware and software architectures of forwarding and control separation,
HiSecEngine USG6500F series AI firewalls dynamically allocate resources to service modules through the
adaptive security engine (ASE), maximizing resource utilization and improving overall service performance.
For core services, the HiSecEngine USG6500F series also supports network processor (NP), pattern
matching, and encryption/decryption engines. These engines greatly improve short-packet forwarding,
reduce the forwarding latency, and enhance application identification, intrusion prevention detection, and
IPSec service performance.
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Intelligent defense
HiSecEngine USG6500F series AI firewalls provide content security functions, such as application
identification, IPS, antivirus, and URL filtering to protect intranet servers and users against threats.
HiSecEngine USG6000F series also support to detect unknown threats by interworking with sandbox.
Traditional IPS signatures are manually produced through analysis, resulting in low productivity. Also, the
accuracy of the signatures depends heavily on expert experience. Huawei innovatively enables the IPS
signature production on the intelligent cloud by adopting intelligence technologies and utilizing expert
experience. Such an intelligent mode helps increase the signature productivity by 30 times compared with
manual production, reduce errors caused by manual analysis, and continuously improve the accuracy of
intrusion detection.
The built-in antivirus content-based detection engine (CDE) powered by intelligence technologies can
detect unknown threats and provide in-depth data analysis. With these capabilities, the CDE-boosted
firewall is able to gain insight into threat activities and quickly detect malicious files, effectively improving
the threat detection rate.
USG supports to detect and defend malware spreading and network attacks, like Worm, Virus, Trojan-
horse, Spyware, etc. malware spreading and botnet, DoS/DDoS, SQL injection, cross site attack,
ransomware,etc.
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Simplified O&M
The HiSecEngine USG6500F series provides a brand-new web UI, which intuitively visualizes threats as well
as displays key information such as device status, alarms, traffic, and threat events. With multi-
dimensional data drilling, the web UI offers optimal user experience, enhanced usability, and simplified
O&M.
The HiSecEngine USG6000F series firewalls can be centrally managed by the security management
platform SecoManager, implementing a shift from single-point defense to collaborative network
protection. The SecoManager provides policy tuning and intelligent O&M capabilities. It can also manage
security products, such as anti-DDoS devices to quickly eliminate network threats and improve security
handling effectiveness.
The HiSecEngine USG6500F series NGFW can also be managed by NCE-Campus, and NCE-Campus can also
support to manage switch, AR, POL device at the same time, even third party devices.
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⚫ Provides secure and rich IPv6 network switchover, policy control, security protection, and service
visualization capabilities, helping government, media, carrier, Internet, and finance sectors
implement IPv6 reconstruction.
⚫ Provides dynamic and static intelligent traffic steering based on multi-egress links, selects the
outbound interface based on the specified link bandwidth, weight, or priority, forwards traffic to each
link based on the specified traffic steering mode, and dynamically tunes the link selection result in
real time to maximize the usage of link resources and improve user experience.
⚫ Most threats and attacks come from network traffic. Firewalls are deployed at the egress of the local
network to interwork with Huawei Qiankun security cloud service to implement automatic threat
analysis and handling. This ensures the interconnection between the intranet and extranet,
effectively intercepts traffic attacks, and automatically handles external attack sources. Protects
enterprise network resources.
⚫ By associating with Huawei Qiankun security cloud service, the firewall can obtain security services
such as border protection and response on demand. Lightweight deployment and unified cloud O&M
effectively reduce hardware stacking and greatly reduce enterprise security investment and O&M
difficulties.
2 Deployment
Small data center border protection
⚫ Firewalls are deployed at egresses of data centers, and functions and system resources can be
virtualized. The firewall has multiple types of interfaces, such as 10G (SFP+), GE (RJ45) and GE(SFP)
interfaces. Services can be flexibly expanded without extra interface cards.
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⚫ The intrusion prevention capability effectively blocks a variety of malicious attacks and delivers
differentiated defense based on virtual environment requirements to guarantee data security.
⚫ VPN tunnels can be set up between firewalls and mobile workers and between firewalls and branch
offices for secure and low-cost remote access and mobile working.
3 Product Appearance
Rich access capability: Ethernet, LTE/5G RU and GPON.
Figure:
HiSecEngine USG6510F-D/USG6530F-D
HiSecEngine USG6510F-DL/USG6530F-DL
HiSecEngine USG6560F-D
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HiSecEngine USG6525F/USG6555F/USG6565F/USG6585F
HiSecEngine USG6585F-B
4 Software Features
Feature Description
Supports traffic management and control based on the VLAN ID, 5-tuple,
security zone, region, application, and time range, and implements integrated
content security inspection.
Security policy
Provides predefined templates for common attack defense scenarios to
management
facilitate security policy deployment.
Supports interworking with third-party policy management software (FireMon
and Algosec) to facilitate security O&M.
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priority.
Obtains the latest threat information in a timely manner and accurately detects
and prevents vulnerability exploits; covers tens of thousands of CVE
vulnerabilities; prevents the exploit of vulnerabilities (such as those in Windows
and Unix/Linux operating systems, databases, Apache, IIS, and Tomcat as well as
middleware), web attacks (such as SQL injection, XSS, and RCE), botnets, remote
control, and Trojan horses; supports brute force cracking detection based on
Intrusion prevention user behavior; provides 25,000+ predefined signatures and supports user-
defined signatures and automatic signature database update; supports attack
forensics collection, full-flow packet obtaining (including three-way handshake
information), and attack fragment display to facilitate O&M; supports X-
Forwarded-For (XFF) field extraction.
The USG6500F-D series supports a maximum of 10000 IPS signatures.
Detects malware in files transmitted through protocols like HTTP, FTP, SMTP,
POP3, IMAP4, NFS, and SMB; detects Trojan horses, worms, spyware,
vulnerability exploits, adware, hacker tools, Rootkit, backdoors, grayware,
botnet programs, ransomware, phishing software, cryptojacking software, and
web shell programs; supports virus detection for Office files, executable files
Antivirus
(Windows/Linux/MacOS), script files, flash files, PDF files, RTF files, web pages,
and images; supports attack forensics collection; supports the inspection of
archive files of up to 100 nested compression levels in multiple compression
formats, such as tar, gzip, zip, rar, and 7z, and supports multiple actions, such as
alert, block, add declaration, and attachment deletion.
The heuristic antivirus engine uses detection technologies such as AI, semantic
analysis, and Emulator, coupled with threat and reputation information, to
Advanced malware detect packed malware, script morphing, and malware embedded in compound
prevention documents. It can detect billions of malware variants and supports automatic
update of the signature database. In addition, it can send suspicious files to the
local or cloud sandbox for further inspection to detect zero-day malware.
The URL category database on the cloud contains 560 million URLs in over 130
categories, such as news, games, gambling, drugs, and malicious web pages.
URLs cover over 100 languages, and key categories of URLs cover over 20
languages. The URL category query servers are deployed in multiple
countries/regions to provide high-speed and low-latency category query
services. User-defined URL/host whitelist and blacklist are supported. HTTPS
traffic can be filtered without decryption. TLS/SSL traffic can be decrypted
before filtering. HTTP/2 and QUIC traffic can be filtered, and URL categories can
Web security be imported in batches.
Supports Safe Search enforcement across five major search engines: YouTube,
Bing, Google, Yahoo, and Yandex, with mandatory filtering of illegal or
inappropriate content in search results.
URL access can be controlled based on users/user groups, time ranges, and
security zones to precisely manage users' online behaviors.
DNS security Based on massive threat information, technologies such as AI and knowledge
graph are used to detect malicious DNS requests, including C&C domain names,
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Supports the detection and prevention of viruses and advanced malware, such
as botnets, Trojan horses, worms, remote control tools, and spyware, and
Anti-botnet/spyware prevents the download of malware; quickly detects malicious traffic like C&C
based on signatures, IP addresses, and domain reputation information; displays
the roles of communication parties in botnet attack logs.
Supports common industrial control protocols such as Modbus, S7, Profinet, and
OPC, identification and control of IoT devices such as cameras, and IoT asset risk
assessment. Supports vulnerability detection for IoT devices like cameras and
industrial control software and protocols like ICS/SCADA.
The traffic probe function, coupled with HiSec Insight situational awareness
OT/IoT security system, can learn the traffic behavior baseline of IoT assets and detect and
evaluate IoT asset risks.
1.For details about the list of supported OT protocols, see
https://isecurity.huawei.com/security/wiki/application (Business Systems > Industrial).
2. The USG6500F-D series does not support industrial control protocols.
3. Firewalls are deployed at Level 3.5 or above of the Purdue model.
Supports mail address filtering (covering the sender and recipient addresses)
Mail filtering
and SMTP mail sending rate limiting.
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Audits and regulates common user online behaviors, including FTP operations
Behavior audit (upload, download, and command), HTTP operations (posting, search, and
browsing), DNS, Telnet, SNMP, and email sending and receiving operations.
Supports service-specific PBR and intelligently selects the optimal link based on
Intelligent uplink selection multiple types of load balancing criteria (such as the bandwidth ratio and link
health status) in multi-ISP scenarios.
Supports various highly reliable VPN features, such as IPsec VPN, SSL VPN, and
VPN encryption GRE, and multiple encryption algorithms, such as DES, 3DES, AES, SHA, SM2,
SM3, and SM4.
Replaces the server to implement SSL encryption and decryption, reducing the
SSL offloading
server load and implementing load balancing of HTTP traffic.
Supports multiple types of IPv4/IPv6 routing protocols, such as RIP, OSPF, BGP,
Routing
IS-IS, RIPng, OSPFv3, BGP4+, and IPv6 IS-IS.
Supports IPv4 Layer 3 multicast protocols, such as IGMP, MSDP, and PIM, and
IP multicast
provides point-to-multipoint services to reduce bandwidth consumption.
Supports transparent (Layer 2), routing (Layer 3), tap, and hybrid working
Deployment and reliability modes and high availability (HA), including the Active/Active and Active/Standby
modes.
Supports IPv6, Layer 4/Layer 7 server load balancing, and multiple session
persistence methods such as source IP address-based and HTTP cookie-based
session persistence; supports SSL offloading and encryption; combines services
Server load balancing
and security policies to improve service security; supports health check based
on multiple protocols such as TCP, RADIUS, DNS, and HTTP to detect server
status changes promptly.
Security center The built-in asset identification module can identify assets such as Windows,
Linux, Android, and iOS assets and cameras, perform correlation analysis on
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threat logs and assets, and display asset risk assessment results and the entire
kill chain.
Supports IS-IS for SRv6, BGP for SRv6, SRv6 BE, SRv6 TE policy, SRv6 midpoint
SRv6 protection, SRv6 microloop avoidance, SRv6 OAM, SRv6 SRH compression, SRv6
TI-LFA FRR, and EVPN L3VPN.
Secure SD-WAN Supports forward error correction (FEC) to prevent pixelated display and video
freezing at a 30% packet loss rate; supports real-time link switching based on
link quality ensure key application experience.
Supports multi-link routing and dual-CPE flexible networking to ensure
uninterrupted connections for site services; supports E2E IPsec encryption to
ensure secure service transmission.
Service Description
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5 Specifications
System Performance and Capacity
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Threat Protection
Throughput 800 Mbps 1 Gbps 1.2 Gbps 800 Mbps 1 Gbps
(Enterprise Mix)5
Concurrent Sessions 800,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 800,000 1,000,000
IPv6 Concurrent
200,000 500,000 500,000 200,000 500,000
Sessions1
New Sessions/Second
40,000/s 50,000 50,000 40,000/s 50,000
(HTTP1.1)1
IPv6 New
Sessions/Second 8000/s 30,000 30,000 8,000 30,000
(HTTP1.1)1
IPsec VPN Throughput1
(AES-256 + SHA256, 2 Gbps 3.7 Gbps 3.7 Gbps 2 Gbps 3.7 Gbps
1420-byte)
Maximum IPSec VPN
1,000 2,000 2,000 1,000 2,000
Tunnels (GW to GW)
Maximum IPsec VPN
1,000 2,000 2,000 1,000 2,000
Tunnels (Client to GW)
SSL Inspection
400 Mbps 400 Mbps 550 Mbps 400 Mbps 400 Mbps
Throughput8
SSL VPN Throughput6 200 Mbps 300 Mbps 300 Mbps 200 Mbps 300 Mbps
Concurrent SSL VPN
Users 100/300 100/1000 100/1000 100/300 100/1000
(Default/Maximum)
Firewall Policies
3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000
(Maximum)
Virtual Firewalls 10 20 20 10 20
URL Filtering:
More than 130
Categories
URL Filtering: URLs A database of over 560 million URLs in the cloud
Automated IPS Yes, an industry-leading security center from Huawei
Signature Updates (https://isecurity.huawei.com/security/service/ips)
Third-Party and Open- Open API for integration with third-party products, providing NETCONF interfaces.
Source Ecosystem Other third-party management software based on SNMP, SSH, and Syslog
VLANs (Maximum) 4094
VLANIF Interfaces
4094
(Maximum)
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(1518/512/64-byte, license:20/18/5
UDP) Gbps
IPv6 Firewall 10/10/5 Gbps
Throughput1 2.5/2.5/2.5 with enhanced
5/5/3.6 Gbps 7/7/3.6 Gbps 9/9/4 Gbps
(1518/512/84-byte, Gbps license:20/18/5
UDP) Gbps
Secure SD-WAN
Throughput(1400/512 2.5/2.5 Gbps 5/5 Gbps 6/6 Gbps 9/6.6 Gbps 10/6.8 Gbps
byte,UDP) 9
SD-WAN EVPN max
200 200 200 200 200
tunnels
Firewall Throughput
3.75 Mpps 5.4 Mpps 5.4 Mpps 6 Mpps 7.5Mpps
(Packets Per Second)
Firewall Latency (64-
18 µs 18 µs 18 µs 18 µs 15 µs
byte, UDP)
FW + SA* Throughput2 2.2 Gbps 3 Gbps 3 Gbps 3 Gbps 4.5Gbps
NGFW Throughput
1.8 Gbps 2.1 Gbps 2.2 Gbps 2.2 Gbps 3.3Gbps
(HTTP 100K)3
NGFW Throughput
1.2 Gbps 1.2 Gbps 1.2 Gbps 1.3 Gbps 2Gbps
(Enterprise Mix) 4
Threat Protection
Throughput (HTTP 1.5 Gbps 1.8 Gbps 2 Gbps 2 Gbps 3Gbps
100K)7
Threat Protection
Throughput (Enterprise 1 Gbps 1 Gbps 1.1 Gbps 1.2 Gbps 1.8Gbps
Mix)5
Concurrent Sessions 3,000,000 4,000,000 4,000,000 4,000,000 4,000,000
IPv6 Concurrent
3,000,000 3,000,000 3,000,000 3,000,000 3,000,000
Sessions1
New Sessions/Second
80,000 80,000 80,000 80,000 120,000
(HTTP1.1)1
IPv6 New
Sessions/Second 80,000 80,000 80,000 80,000 120,000
(HTTP1.1)1
IPsec VPN Throughput1
(AES-256 + SHA256, 2.5 Gbps 3.7 Gbps 3.7 Gbps 3.7 Gbps 5.6 Gbps
1420-byte)
Maximum IPSec VPN
4,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 4,000
Tunnels (GW to GW)
Maximum IPsec VPN
4,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 4,000
Tunnels (Client to GW)
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SSL Inspection
550 Mbps 550 Mbps 550 Mbps 550 Mbps 830 Mbps
Throughput8
SSL VPN Throughput6 300 Mbps 500 Mbps 500 Mbps 500 Mbps 750 Mbps
Concurrent SSL VPN
Users 100/1000 100/2000 100/2000 100/2000 100/2000
(Default/Maximum)
Firewall Policies
15,000
(Maximum)
Virtual Firewalls 100
URL Filtering:
More than 130
Categories
URL Filtering: URLs A database of over 560 million URLs in the cloud
Automated IPS Yes, an industry-leading security center from Huawei
Signature Updates (https://isecurity.huawei.com/security/service/ips)
Third-Party and Open- Open API for integration with third-party products, providing NETCONF interfaces
Source Ecosystem Other third-party management software based on SNMP, SSH, and Syslog
VLANs (Maximum) 4094
VLANIF Interfaces
4094
(Maximum)
1. Performance is tested under ideal conditions based on RFC2544, 3511. The actual result may vary with deployment
environments.
3. NGFW throughput is measured with Firewall, SA, and IPS enabled; the performance is measured using 100 KB HTTP files.
4. NGFW throughput is measured with Firewall, SA, and IPS enabled; the performance is measured using the Enterprise Mix
Traffic Model.
5. The threat protection throughput is measured with Firewall, SA, IPS, and AV enabled; the performance is measured using
the Enterprise Mix Traffic Model.
7. NGFW throughput is measured with Firewall, SA, IPS, and AV enabled, the performances are measured using 100 KB HTTP
files.
8. SSL inspection throughput is measured with IPS-enabled and HTTPS traffic using TLS v1.2 with
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256.
6 Hardware Specifications
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Chassis Height 1U
Dimensions (W x D x H) mm 442 × 420 × 43.6
16*GE RJ45 +
Fixed Interface 2*GE RJ45 + 8*GE COMBO + 2*10GE SFP+ 8*GE COMBO +
2*10GE SFP+
USB Port 2 x USB 2.0 1 × USB 2.0
Weight 5.46 kg 5.816kg
Hardware Optional, M.2 SSD (64 GB/240 GB/960GB), hot-swappable
Power Supply 100 V to 240 V, 50 Hz/60 Hz
Maximum power
consumption of the 36.8W 53.2W
machine
Power Supplies Optional dual power modules for 1+1 redundancy
Temperature: 0°C to 45°C
Operating Environment
Humidity: 5% to 95%, non-condensing
Temperature: –40°C to +70°C
Storage environment
Humidity: 5% to 95%, non-condensing
7 Ordering Information
Note:
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Function License
LIC-USG6KF-SSLVPN-
SSL VPN Quantity of SSL VPN Concurrent Users (1000 Users)
1000
LIC-USG6KF-SSLVPN-
Quantity of SSL VPN Concurrent Users (2000 Users)
2000
LIC-USG6KF-SSLVPN-
Quantity of SSL VPN Concurrent Users (5000 Users)
5000
NGFW License
Threat Protection Bundle LIC-USG6510F-DPL-TPU- Threat Protection Database Upgrade Service (Applies
(IPS, AV, URL) 1Y to USG6510F-D), Per Device, Per Year
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N1 License
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Qiankun OP mode
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