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Selection of Firewall

shahid.faisal
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We want to buy a firewall, our requirement is we have an online web application that our clients will access through Internet, these users will not exceed to more than 3,000 in coming 5 years, we are also expecting few site to site VPNs not more than 20 from our world wide clients. We are thinking that we will place our web servers and email server on DMZ, our 100 Users network will connect to internet through inside network, we are also thinking to place our databases and SANs on the third interface and users from the DMZ & LAN will access them through Firewall, and the fourth interface will connect to the outside world.

For the above scenario we have two options (as suggested by a tool Cisco Product Advisor) i.e.

Product Summary 

ASA-5510-SEC-BUN-K9

ASA-5520-BUN-K9

Maximum firewall (Mbps) 

300 Mbps

450 Mbps

Maximum firewall connections

130,000

280,000

Maximum firewall connections/second

9,000

12,000

Packets per second (64 byte)

190,000

320,000

Maximum 3DES/AES VPN throughput

170 Mbps

225 Mbps

Maximum site-to-site and remote access VPN sessions 

250

750

Maximum SSL VPN user sessions1

250

750

Bundled SSL VPN user session

2

2

Memory

256 MB

512 MB

Minimum system flash

64 MB

64 MB

Integrated ports

2-10/100/ 1000, 3-10/ 100

4-10/100/ 1000, 1-10/100

Maximum virtual interfaces (VLANs)

100

150

We need an opinion that if you go for ASA 5510 can it cause any bottleneck in the coming 3 to 4 years ?, Memory 256 can cause any problem ?

Thanks & Regards

Faisal Shahid

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Jennifer Halim
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

I believe the latest production of ASA5510 comes with 1GB of memory.

Here is the model comparison for your reference:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6120/prod_models_comparison.html#~mid-range

From experience, ASA 5510 (with Security plus license) should fit the specification that you have provided.

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Jennifer Halim
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

I believe the latest production of ASA5510 comes with 1GB of memory.

Here is the model comparison for your reference:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6120/prod_models_comparison.html#~mid-range

From experience, ASA 5510 (with Security plus license) should fit the specification that you have provided.

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