The PA-5000 Series is a next-generation firewall that delivers unprecedented visibility and control over applications, users and content on enterprise networks. The PA-5000 Series manages multi-Gbps traffic flows using dedicated processing and memory for networking, security, threat prevention and management. A backplane smoothes the pathway between dedicated processors, and the physical separation of data and control plane ensures that management access is always available, irrespective of the traffic load. The controlling element of the PA-5000 Series next-generation firewalls is PAN-OSTM, a security-specific operating system that tightly integrates three unique identification technologies: App-IDTM, User-IDTM and Content-IDTM, with key firewall, networking and management features.