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scottd,
my guess is that you will be better off with one of Astaro's hardware solutions. If you look at how the Astaro software licenses: http://portal.knowledgebase.net/display/2n/kb/article.asp?aid=119934&n=1&s=1 your going to need a fairly large license in order to cover your IP's / sessions.
When we did the math (but we have not purchased yet) we could get a pair of 220's + maintenance etc. for the price of a single software license.
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ASL Protected IP's Concurrent connection limit
10 32,000
25 64,000
50 128,000
100 256,000
250 512,000
500 1,024,000
unlimited unlimited
The only installations I've dealt with of that size are on Astaro Hardware. I'd check out the HCL at http://www.astaro.com/kb to make sure the RAID controller is on the list, and to make sure that your NICs are on that list (those are the most often-overlooked items... if they are not on the HCL, they probably will not work). As far as raw "horsepower", that configuration sounds fine. Bear in mind that although ASL technically supports SMP, the SQUID proxy that it runs has performance issues when run on a SMP system. I recommend you load it with the noSMP option.