ASA 5500 Series

Today’s enterprise networks must deal with an increasingly mobile workforce requiring anywhere, anytime access from a variety of company and personal devices. These networks must support an ever-increasing amount of data and transactions, requiring more efficient methods to scale to meet the performance levels of today’s applications while ensuring the highest levels of security. The Cisco ASA 5585-X Next-Generation Firewall meets these demands. It delivers unprecedented scalability, performance, and security in a compact two-rack-unit (2RU) footprint.

Using a single firewall blade, the Cisco ASA 5585-X delivers eight times the performance density of competitive firewalls. It supports the highest VPN session counts, twice as many connections per second, and four times the connection capacity of competitive firewalls. The Cisco ASA 5585-X meets the growing needs of today’s most dynamic organizations.

Cisco ASA 5585-X Bundles for Sale:

• Cisco ASA 5585-X IPS Edition SSP-60 and IPS SSP-60 bundle – Security appliance 
• Cisco ASA 5585-X IPS Edition SSP-40 and IPS SSP-40 bundle – Security appliance
• Cisco ASA 5585-X IPS Edition SSP-20 and IPS SSP-20 bundle – Security appliance
• Cisco ASA 5585-X IPS Edition SSP-10 and IPS SSP-10 bundle – Security appliance ​

The Cisco ASA 5580-20 and 5580-40 Adaptive Security Appliances deliver multigigabit security services for large enterprise, data center, and service-provider networks in a robust, 4-rack-unit form factor. The Cisco ASA 5580 accommodates high-density copper and optical interfaces with scalability from Fast Ethernet to 10 Gigabit Ethernet, enabling unparalleled security and deployment flexibility. Cisco ASA 5580 Adaptive Security Appliances include six interface card expansion slots with support for up to 24 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces or up to twelve 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces that simplify provisioning and enable campus segmentation. Furthermore, this high-density design enables security virtualization while retaining physical segmentation desired in managed security and infrastructure consolidation applications.

The Cisco ASA 5580 Series is offered at two performance levels: the Cisco ASA 5580-20 with 5 Gbps of real-world firewall performance, and the high-end Cisco ASA 5580-40 with 10 Gbps of real-world firewall performance. Their multicore, multiprocessor architecture delivers radical scalability for the most demanding network security and VPN concentration applications. Real-time applications can be transparently secured thanks to the extremely low latency, high session concurrency, and connection setup rates.

Businesses can scale their SSL and IPsec VPN capacity to support a larger number of mobile workers, remote sites, and business partners. Up to 10,000 AnyConnect and/or clientless VPN peers can be supported on each Cisco ASA 5580 by installing an Essential or a Premium AnyConnect VPN license; 10,000 IPsec VPN peers are supported on the base platform. Cisco ASA 5580 Adaptive Security Appliances can also be clustered to improve reliability and scalability, with support for up to 100,000 AnyConnect and/or clientless or IPsec remote-access clients when deploying 10 appliances in a cluster. For business continuity and event planning, the ASA 5580 can also benefit from the Cisco VPN FLEX licenses, which enable administrators to react to or plan for short-term bursts of concurrent Premium VPN remote-access users, for up to a 2-month period.

Additional features, including security virtualization through the use of security contexts and VLANs, increase service velocity while reducing operational and administrative overhead.

Cisco ASA 5580-20 Specifications:

The Cisco ASA5510-AIP10-K9 Adaptive Security Appliance delivers a wealth of advanced security and networking services for small-to-medium businesses and enterprise remote/branch offices in an easy-to-deploy, cost-effective appliance. These services can be easily managed and monitored by the integrated, Web-based management application, Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager, thus reducing the overall deployment and operations costs associated with providing this high level of security.

The Cisco ASA5510-AIP10-K9 Adaptive Security Appliance provides high performance firewall and VPN services, three integrated 10/100 Fast Ethernet interfaces, and optional high-performance intrusion prevention and anti-x services via a Security Services Module making it an excellent choice for businesses requiring a cost-effective, extensible, DMZ-enabled security solution.

As business needs grow, the Cisco ASA5510-AIP10-K9 Adaptive Security Appliance can also scale to higher interface density and integrate into switched network environments through VLAN support by installing a Security Plus upgrade license. Furthermore, this upgrade license maximizes business continuity by enabling Active/Standby high availability services and expands VPN capacity by supporting a greater number of concurrent VPN connections for mobile users, remote sites, and business partners.

The Cisco ASA5512-IPS-K9 midrange security appliance uses the Cisco SecureX framework for a context-aware, network-centric approach to security that enables consistent security enforcement throughout the organization. It is built on the same proven security platform as the rest of the ASA family of security appliances, and has been designed to deliver superior performance for exceptional operational efficiency.

With up to 1.2 Gbps of firewall throughput, 250,000 concurrent firewall connections, 15,000 connections per second, and 6 integrated 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet interfaces, the ASA5512-IPS-K9 is excellent choice for businesses requiring a high-performance, cost-effective, extensible security solution that can grow with their changing needs.

Cisco ASA5512-IPS-K9 Specifications:

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The Cisco ASA5515-K9 Next-Generation Firewall integrate the world's most proven stateful inspection firewall with a comprehensive suite of highly integrated next-generation firewall services for networks of all sizes-small and midsize businesses with one or a few locations, large enterprises, service providers, and mission-critical data centers. The Cisco ASA5515-K9 Firewall Security Appliance deliver MultiScale performance with unprecedented services flexibility, including next-generation firewall capabilities, modular scalability, feature extensibility, and lower deployment and operations costs.

Cisco ASA5515-K9 Specifications:

The Cisco ASA-AC-E-5540 VPN License AnyConnect Essentials is an unlock code that will allow 2,500 concurrent users into your network configures with the Cisco ASA 5500 Series Firewalls. Cisco AnyConnect Essentials offers basic AnyConnect tunneling support for customers who require VPN remote access but do not need Cisco Secure Desktop features or clientless SSL VPN capabilities.

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The Cisco ASA 5540 Adaptive Security Appliance w/ AIP-SSM-40 Module (ASA5540-AIP40-K9) delivers high-performance, high-density security services with Active/Active high availability and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity for medium-sized and large enterprise and service-provider networks, in a reliable, modular appliance. With four Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and support for up to 100 VLANs, businesses can use the Cisco ASA 5540 to segment their network into numerous zones for improved security. The Cisco ASA 5540 Adaptive Security Appliance scales with businesses as their network security requirements grow, delivering exceptional investment protection and services scalability. The advanced network and application-layer security services and content security defenses provided by the Cisco ASA 5540 Adaptive Security Appliance can be extended by deploying the AIP SSM for high-performance intrusion prevention and worm mitigation.

Businesses can scale their SSL and IPsec VPN capacity to support a larger number of mobile workers, remote sites, and business partners. Businesses can scale up to 2500 SSL VPN peers on each Cisco ASA 5540 by installing an SSL VPN upgrade license; 5000 IPsec VPN peers are supported on the base platform. VPN capacity and resiliency can also be increased by taking advantage of the Cisco ASA 5540's integrated VPN clustering and load-balancing capabilities. The Cisco ASA 5540 Adaptive Security Appliance w/ AIP-SSM-40 Module (ASA5540-AIP40-K9) supports up to 10 appliances in a cluster, supporting a maximum of 25,000 SSL VPN peers or 50,000 IPsec VPN peers per cluster.

Specifications of the Cisco ASA 5540 w/ AIP-SSM-40  (ASA5540-AIP40-K9):