Check Point today announced the launch of Check Point Power-1, a new line of Internet security appliances offering high-performance sites a simple, robust, and easy to manage security solution. Power-1 appliances combine firewall, IPSec, VPN and intrusion prevention with advanced acceleration technologies, delivering a high-performance security platform for multi-Gbps environments. Power-1 appliances provides performance up to 14 Gbps firewall throughput, delivering the most cost-efficient firewall for high performance environments — a price/performance ratio under $4 per Mbps.