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Cisco ASA 5580
Cisco announced the availability of the Cisco ASA 5580 Series Adaptive Security
Appliances, the company's highest-performing security appliance offering. The
new Cisco ASA 5580 is a super-high-performance security platform equally well
suited for deployment as a highly scalable firewall with up to 20 gigabits per
second (Gbps) of throughput, as well as a 10,000 user remote-access concentrator
for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and IP Security (IPsec)-based virtual private
networks (VPN).
The Cisco ASA 5580 Series is designed to protect these media-rich, highly
transactional and latency-sensitive applications at the enterprise data center
and Internet gateway by providing a security solution with market-leading
throughput, the highest connection rates in the industry, very large policy
configurations, and very low latency. This makes the appliance highly suitable
for the security needs of organizations with the most demanding applications,
such as voice, video, data backup, scientific or grid computing, and financial
trading systems.
The Cisco ASA 5580 Series consists of three offerings: The Cisco ASA 5580-40
security appliance, Cisco ASA 5580-20 security appliance, and the Cisco ASA
5580-20 Remote Access VPN Concentrator. The top-of-the-line Cisco ASA 5580-40
offers up to two million simultaneous connections, 750,000 security policies and
10 Gbps of firewall throughput scaling up to 20 Gbps for data-intensive
applications such as video sharing or storage-area networking. Both Cisco ASA
5580-20 models support up to one million simultaneous connections and 5 Gbps
firewall throughput.
All models deliver industry-leading connection handling rates of 150,000
connections per second, offer ultra-low latency as low as 30 microseconds, and
continue to perform even in strenuous, mixed-traffic environments. This gives
enterprise IT departments the coveted performance and speed without sacrificing
efficiency or reliability.
The Cisco ASA 5580 takes firewall throughput and VPN capacity to the next level.
Contact ProNet Expert's network team to see how you can save on hardware costs and
Total Cost of Ownership by consolidating existing firewall services to the ASA
5580 platform.
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