topic Performance - ASA 5550/5580 versus Nokia IP560/590 in Network Security https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/performance-asa-5550-5580-versus-nokia-ip560-590/m-p/1173470#M875246 <P>I've just been looking at the performance stats for the firewalls we have (Nokia) and the firewalls we are planning to get (ASA) and found the following:</P><P></P><P> </P><P></P><P>Nokia IP560</P><P></P><P>FW - large packets 6.0 Gbps </P><P>VPN - large packets 1.78 Gbps, AES256 </P><P>CPS - 58,000 CPS </P><P>Max 725,000 FW TCP sessions </P><P></P><P>Nokia IP690</P><P></P><P>Firewall - large packets 7 Gbps </P><P>VPN - large packets 1.85 Gbps, AES256 </P><P>Max TCP 725,000 </P><P>TCP session rate 35,624 </P><P> </P><P>Cisco ASA 5550</P><P> </P><P>Maximum firewall and IPS throughput(Mbps)1.2 Gbps</P><P>Maximum firewall connections 650,000</P><P>Maximum firewall connections/second 36,000</P><P>Packets per second (64 byte)600,000</P><P>Maximum 3DES/AES VPN throughput 425 Mbps</P><P>Maximum site-to-site and remote access VPN sessions 5000</P><P>Maximum SSL VPN user sessions 5000</P><P>Bundled SSL VPN user session 2</P><P> </P><P></P><P>Either Nokia and Cisco are measuring completely differently, or the ASA is way, way slower than the Nokia boxes</P><P></P><P>Can anyone help?</P><P></P><P>Many thanks</P><P>Richard</P> Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:02:16 GMT vinerichard 2019-03-11T15:02:16Z Performance - ASA 5550/5580 versus Nokia IP560/590 https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/performance-asa-5550-5580-versus-nokia-ip560-590/m-p/1173470#M875246 <P>I've just been looking at the performance stats for the firewalls we have (Nokia) and the firewalls we are planning to get (ASA) and found the following:</P><P></P><P> </P><P></P><P>Nokia IP560</P><P></P><P>FW - large packets 6.0 Gbps </P><P>VPN - large packets 1.78 Gbps, AES256 </P><P>CPS - 58,000 CPS </P><P>Max 725,000 FW TCP sessions </P><P></P><P>Nokia IP690</P><P></P><P>Firewall - large packets 7 Gbps </P><P>VPN - large packets 1.85 Gbps, AES256 </P><P>Max TCP 725,000 </P><P>TCP session rate 35,624 </P><P> </P><P>Cisco ASA 5550</P><P> </P><P>Maximum firewall and IPS throughput(Mbps)1.2 Gbps</P><P>Maximum firewall connections 650,000</P><P>Maximum firewall connections/second 36,000</P><P>Packets per second (64 byte)600,000</P><P>Maximum 3DES/AES VPN throughput 425 Mbps</P><P>Maximum site-to-site and remote access VPN sessions 5000</P><P>Maximum SSL VPN user sessions 5000</P><P>Bundled SSL VPN user session 2</P><P> </P><P></P><P>Either Nokia and Cisco are measuring completely differently, or the ASA is way, way slower than the Nokia boxes</P><P></P><P>Can anyone help?</P><P></P><P>Many thanks</P><P>Richard</P> Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:02:16 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/performance-asa-5550-5580-versus-nokia-ip560-590/m-p/1173470#M875246 vinerichard 2019-03-11T15:02:16Z Re: Performance - ASA 5550/5580 versus Nokia IP560/590 https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/performance-asa-5550-5580-versus-nokia-ip560-590/m-p/1173471#M875247 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>If you look at the 5580 then your able to get upto 20 Gbps (using large packet sizes) and 2 million concurrent connections.</P><P></P><P>This competes well with a Nokia box.</P><P></P><P></P><P>Regards</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:23:49 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/performance-asa-5550-5580-versus-nokia-ip560-590/m-p/1173471#M875247 JamesLuther 2009-03-09T19:23:49Z