We are a small company that co-lo's currently two 1U servers with a 16 IP Block. We are now doing enough business to justify getting some type of protection in front of our web/database servers (ecommerce) other than just iptables.
In the height of our busy season, we will get close to 4 million hits in a month and about 30-40GB of actual data movement over the Internet pipe.
Primary purpose of the box would be to do firewall/IPS activity. Anti- Virus scans on inbound mail would be a plus, but not necessary. Same with one P2P VPN, but again, not necessary. We do not need all the desktop AV, Spyware, etc... features as the box will not be located in our office, just in front of our servers.
Budget is around $1,000 +/- a few bucks. Do not want anything like Linksys or Dlink, but at the same time, we are not going to be purchasing Cisco ASA's.
Any input would be appreciated.