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title: "Infoblox Advanced Appliance PT-4000 Product Overview"
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The Advanced Appliance PT-4000 is a high performance Infoblox network appliance that supports the Infoblox ADP (Advanced DNS Protection) solution. With valid licenses installed, the PT-4000 appliance provides a hardware-accelerated solution to DNS threats targeting DNS caching and authoritative applications. You configure and manage the Advanced Appliance PT-4000 through the Infoblox Grid Manager. For more information about Advanced Appliance features and licensing, refer to the *Infoblox* *NIOS Administrator Guide*.  
 Key features of the Advanced Appliance PT-4000 include the following:

- Four (4) active SFP 1GbE Ethernet interfaces: two (2) active 10GbE interfaces (LAN1 and LAN2) to support Advanced DNS Protection features, one interface (HA) to support high availability mode, and one interface (MGMT) designated for device management.
- High availability support
- Supports management through the Infoblox Grid
- LOM (Lights Out Management) support
- Replaceable hard disk drives
- Hot-swappable AC or DC power supplies in a redundant 1+1 configuration
- Alternative system configurations for the support of copper or fiber SFP 1GbE interfaces, with support for mixed copper/fiber deployments.

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Infoblox Advanced Appliance PT-4000-10GE

The Advanced Appliance PT-4000-10GE is an optional configuration that provides Infoblox ADP (Advanced DNS Protection) capabilities at 10GbE line speed. With valid licenses installed, the PT-4000-10GE appliance provides a hardware-accelerated solution to DNS threats targeting DNS caching and authoritative applications, using 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Associated features include the following.

- Four (4) active SFP+ 10GbE Ethernet interfaces: two (2) active interfaces to support Advanced DNS Protection features, one interface (HA) to support high availability mode, and one interface (MGMT) designated for device management. (See *<span style="color: #0000ff">[Infoblox](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/4000SeriesInstallGuide/pages/36739036/Infoblox+4000+Series+Hardware+Components#Infoblox4000SeriesHardwareComponents-bookmark16)</span>*[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/4000SeriesInstallGuide/pages/36739036/Infoblox+4000+Series+Hardware+Components#Infoblox4000SeriesHardwareComponents-bookmark16)*<span style="color: #0000ff">[PT-4000-10GE](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/4000SeriesInstallGuide/pages/36739036/Infoblox+4000+Series+Hardware+Components#Infoblox4000SeriesHardwareComponents-bookmark16)</span>*[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/4000SeriesInstallGuide/pages/36739036/Infoblox+4000+Series+Hardware+Components#Infoblox4000SeriesHardwareComponents-bookmark16)*<span style="color: #0000ff">[10-Gigabit](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/4000SeriesInstallGuide/pages/36739036/Infoblox+4000+Series+Hardware+Components#Infoblox4000SeriesHardwareComponents-bookmark16)</span>*[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/4000SeriesInstallGuide/pages/36739036/Infoblox+4000+Series+Hardware+Components#Infoblox4000SeriesHardwareComponents-bookmark16)*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Ethernet](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/4000SeriesInstallGuide/pages/36739036/Infoblox+4000+Series+Hardware+Components#Infoblox4000SeriesHardwareComponents-bookmark16)</span>*[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/4000SeriesInstallGuide/pages/36739036/Infoblox+4000+Series+Hardware+Components#Infoblox4000SeriesHardwareComponents-bookmark16)*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Connectivity](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/4000SeriesInstallGuide/pages/36739036/Infoblox+4000+Series+Hardware+Components#Infoblox4000SeriesHardwareComponents-bookmark16)</span>*[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/4000SeriesInstallGuide/pages/36739036/Infoblox+4000+Series+Hardware+Components#Infoblox4000SeriesHardwareComponents-bookmark16) for details.)
- High availability support
- Supports management through the Infoblox Grid
- LOM (Lights Out Management) support
- Replaceable hard disk drives
- Hot-swappable AC or DC power supplies in a redundant 1+1 configuration
- Alternative system configurations for the support of copper or fiber SFP+ 10GbE interfaces, with support for mixed copper/fiber deployments and mixed 1GbE and 10GbE deployment, based on installed transceivers.