Let’s talk about something that’s probably frustrated you more than once.

You’ve architected your network exactly the way it needs to be. Every connection, every system, every vendor relationship chosen for a reason. Performance matters. Procurement matters. Regional sourcing matters.

Then you go to deploy a cybersecurity solution, and suddenly you’re fitting your infrastructure into someone else’s hardware roadmap.

Import duties and delays. Proprietary SKUs. “Sorry, we only ship these specific appliances.” Weeks turn into months while your protection sits in customs.

That ends now.

Hardware Shouldn’t Dictate Your Security Strategy

Here’s what just changed: Our SmartWall ONE™ DDoS protection platform now runs three ways—on purpose-built appliances, as virtual machines, or on your own industry-standard servers from approved vendors. Same platform. Same real-time mitigation. Complete feature parity across all three at the throughput capacity you need.

No more waiting on proprietary hardware. No more customs headaches eating months off your timeline. No more “this is how we do it” from vendors who don’t understand your world.

You choose the servers. You control the timeline. You deploy where and how your business needs it.

The Problems Everyone Talks About But Nobody Fixes

If any of these sound familiar, you’re exactly who we built this for:

“We’ve been waiting four months for hardware stuck in customs.” Import duties and logistics nightmares shouldn’t delay your security. With bare metal deployment, source servers locally through your preferred regional vendors. Deploy in days, not quarters.

“Our procurement team won’t approve single-vendor hardware.” Fair. Why should they? Now you can run our software on servers you already trust, through vendors and partners you already work with. Your procurement process stays intact.

“Every vendor wants us to rip and replace our infrastructure.” Not anymore. Got a hybrid environment? Mix and match;: hardware appliances at the edge, virtual protection in the cloud, bare metal in your data centers. Whatever fits your architecture.

“We need performance that won’t choke under AI workloads.” This is where the specs actually matter. Our bare metal deployment delivers up to 800Gbps throughput, on a single server. For context, our competitor’s bare metal offering caps at 110Gbps. When you’re protecting latency-sensitive applications—AI inference, high-frequency trading, real-time communications—that 7x performance advantage isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s everything.

How to Think About Your Deployment Options

Not sure which model fits your needs? Here’s the quick guide:

Choose Hardware Appliances (NTD) When:

• You want plug-and-play simplicity with zero config overhead

• Turnkey deployment from a single vendor is more important than sourcing flexibility

• You’re deploying in regions where overseas hardware procurement isn’t a barrier

Choose Virtual (vNTD) When:

• You’re already running hypervisors or cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• You need elastic scaling for dynamic workloads

Choose Bare Metal (sNTD) When:

• Import duties and customs delays are blocking deployments

• Your procurement team requires approved hardware vendor relationships

• You’re in LATAM, APAC, or anywhere regional sourcing matters

All three deliver the same sub-second automatic protection. All three maintain negligible false positives. All three give you real-time protection.

Why This Matters Beyond the Tech Specs

Platform flexibility isn’t just a deployment checkbox. It’s a market unlock.

In South America, where import taxes can double the cost of foreign hardware, sNTD means you can deploy servers through local SuperMicro supplier channels and avoid the markup entirely.

For service providers building standardized infrastructure across multiple data centers, it means you can buy servers at scale through your existing partnerships, such as Dell, and add Corero software without disrupting your hardware strategy.

For our partners, like Juniper and Akamai, it means you can sell Corero protection without fulfillment friction—software on servers your customers already know.

And for AI infrastructure operators who need every millisecond, it means getting 400Gbps connectivity protection that won’t become a bottleneck.

Same Platform, More Flexibility, Zero Compromises

Here’s what doesn’t change regardless of how you deploy:

• Real-time, automatic protection in under a second
• Complete DDoS defense across volumetric, protocol, and application-layer attacks
• Zero impact from false positives
• TLS/SSL inspection for encrypted attack traffic
• Low latency inline protection that doesn’t require traffic redirection

What does change: you finally get to choose where and how that protection runs.

Let’s Figure Out What Fits Your World

Not every environment needs bare metal. Not every environment needs hardware. That’s the point.

We’ll help you choose the deployment model that actually matches your infrastructure strategy, performance requirements, and procurement realities—without forcing you into an approach that doesn’t fit your playbook.

Let’s talk about what you’ve built, what you’re protecting, and how we can fit into your strategy—not the other way around.

About SmartWall ONE 14.1

The newest release of our SmartWall ONE platform includes complete deployment flexibility across hardware (NTD), virtual (vNTD), and bare metal (sNTD) models. All configurations provide feature parity, sub-second mitigation, and enterprise-grade DDoS protection for networks, applications, and encrypted traffic. Learn more here.