Yea Cisco is doing big favors to their competitors with the latest instances of Firewalls.
As a summary, my 2 cents:
- simplify, simplify, simplify as a general guideline
- get tradeoff between license complexity and profit right. If you get things t...
Well yea don't get us started on Cisco licensing hell on the new ASA platform.
The opposite of simplicity... chassis lic, anyconnect, no wait... also APEX to enable some functions, sourcefire IDS, no wait u need also URL filtering to do that and that...
Agreed, one of the worst integration between two system in history.
They glued the two worlds - ASA <-> Firepower - it seems with shipment tape.
I've been in software eng. and of course this happens during acquisitions etc. but what so far is releas...