Clavister Holding AB (publ.) announced that Clavister NetShield Virtual has been formally validated in collaboration with Intel, the manufacturer of microprocessors and chipsets. In a new Solution Brief just published by Intel, the performance of Clavister NetShield Virtual was thoroughly tested and validated in a simulated 5G network, deploying a fully virtualized N6 firewall. The tests were carried out using 2nd generation Intel Xeon Gold 6230N processor-based servers. The conclusion drawn from the tests is a dramatic and consistent increase in packet forwarding rate when using Clavister NetShield Virtual on an Intel Xeon Scalable Gold processor, as more cores and threads are recruited. The rise in packet throughput means the virtualized firewall can support growing 4G and 5G traffic volumes efficiently with minimal cost.