What is the function of a VPN1 accelerator card?

A.
To increase the throughput of traffic being processed by the inspection engine.

B.
To offload encryption from software to hardware.

C.
To speed up the time taken for a Securemote user to log on.

D.
To increase the CPU cycle rate of the server to give an overall performance improvement.

Explanation:

: A “VPN1 accelerator” card is a special hardware NIC provided by checkpoint with special built-in
encryption capabilities. The purpose of this card is to offload the encryption CPU intensive tasks
from the processor of gateways that process many VPN connections at the same time. If you have
more than 80 simultaneous VPN connections to your server, it recommendable to have one of this
cards. This card is very useful when you have many SecuRemote / secure Clients acceding to
your headquarters in parallel. With the card, the encryption is processed by the hardware and not
with the software.