Hi there. Please see my answers below:
Maximum application control (AVC) throughput?
NS: This the maximum throughput of the appliance when you enable Application Visibility Control which is basically the Layer-7 Firewall.
Maximum AVC and IPS throughput?
NS: This is the maximum throughput of the appliance when you enable both AVC/Layer-7 Firewalling and Intrusion Prevention System
Maximum concurrent sessions?
NS: This is the maximum number of concurrent sessions that the Firewall can store in its connection table before it runs out of memory
Maximum new connections per second?
NS: The maximum number of "new" connections per second. This becomes important especially in very dynamic environments with micro burst. Where you can have burst of traffic resulting in higher number of new connections
AVC or IPS sizing throughput [440-byte HTTP]2?
NS: Sizing a security appliance is not as simple as looking at a data sheet. The performance throughput can drastically change based on many different factors. One of those is the typical/average packet size of the network. For instance, if your network traffic is mostly UDP with 1,500 bytes packets then your Firewall throughput will be higher. However, if your network traffic is mostly TCP and with a bunch of smaller packets (440, 220, 100, 50 bytes, etc) then the Firewall throughput will be smaller.
Supported applications?
NS:The total number of applications that FirePOWER will recognize. For instance, MS Word, Plex, FaceBook Chat, etc. This is useful when configuring L7 Firewall and applying IPS signatures. You can also configure custom applications (if your environment has applications that are not automatically recognized by FirePOWER)
URL categories?
NS: Some examples of URL categories are: Guns, Violence, Social Media, etc. With URL categories you can configure FirePOWER to block a whole category rather than individual URLs.
Number of URLs categorized?
NS: Related to the above. For instance, if you want to block all "Guns" related sites then all of the categorized URLs for "Guns" will be blocked. If for some reason you find a site that is not categorized you can manually block it as well.
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