New MHO 200 delivers 12.8 Tbps fabric capacity and up to 4.5 Tbps threat prevention throughput, enabling neoclouds, telcos and enterprises to secure AI-scale traffic without compromising performance.
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure is putting unprecedented pressure on enterprise network security, particularly as AI training, inference and agentic workloads generate growing volumes of encrypted traffic within data centres. Check Point Software Technologies is addressing this challenge with the launch of its next-generation Maestro Hyperscale Orchestrator 200 (MHO 200), designed to scale security inspection alongside AI infrastructure.
The new orchestrator increases total fabric capacity fourfold to 12.8 Tbps, compared with 3.2 Tbps in its predecessor, the MHO 175. It also raises threat prevention throughput to as much as 4.5 Tbps per Maestro system, up from 1.1 Tbps, while retaining the compact 1RU form factor. The addition of 400GbE ports positions the platform for high-performance data centres and AI factories.
The launch targets neocloud providers, GPU-as-a-service operators, colocation providers, telecommunications companies, governments developing sovereign AI infrastructure and large enterprises modernising their data centres.
As AI workloads expand, security teams face a growing challenge: inspecting encrypted traffic without introducing bottlenecks. Organisations have often had to disable advanced threat prevention to maintain network performance or invest in oversized appliances to accommodate peak demand, leaving capacity underutilised during normal operations.
Pete Finalle, Research Manager, Security and Trust at IDC, noted that AI workloads are driving east-west traffic inside data centres beyond what many traditional security architectures were designed to handle. He said security platforms capable of scaling threat prevention without excessive hardware provisioning will become increasingly important.
“Too many organizations are still forced to choose between performance and prevention. With the MHO 200, they can inspect all their traffic at AI speed, grow capacity as demand rises, and keep their operations running through failures.” — Nataly Kremer, Chief Product Officer, Check Point Software Technologies
Unlike traditional chassis-based architectures tied to dedicated hardware, Maestro combines firewalls of different models and generations into a unified system that can expand with demand. It can also be divided into as many as eight independent security groups, each operating with its own policies. The platform supports automatic failover across two sites, with session continuity designed to deliver 99.999% availability.
The MHO 200 also extends Check Point’s broader AI network security strategy. It enables organisations to discover and secure AI applications, large language models, AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers directly through the firewall. Its single-object management approach allows teams to manage multi-firewall environments as one system, while Agentic Network Security Orchestration automates policy tuning, health monitoring and compliance.
For private and sovereign AI deployments, Check Point’s AI Factory Firewall integrates with NVIDIA BlueField data processing units. Live patching also allows security updates to be applied without reboots or operational downtime.
The MHO 200 is now available globally through Check Point’s product catalogue. Its significance lies in addressing a central infrastructure challenge as AI adoption accelerates: ensuring that security inspection scales with network demand rather than becoming a constraint on AI performance.
