Worth upgrading an S160 to an S170?

[keithsauer507]

We have an S160 currently and its been running in our production network for a few years.  After upgrading to Async OS 8 series the S160 does need weekly reboots because it does slow things down.  Cisco did offer a decent promotion because of this to the S170.  We want to turn on HTTPS filtering and are afraid that the S160 on Async 8 train isn't going to be able to handle the extra load.

Is it worth upgrading to the S170?  We are about 160 employees and have two 50 mbps internet connections coming in.

Our guest wifi is on a completely separate network using an Untangle, so I'm just looking at our main production network.

I really liked what I saw from Sophos but we just paid for WSA updates so changing now would be throwing that money down the drain.  Also if we stick with Cisco we don't have to re-invent the wheel.  I am hoping I can just give it a temporary IP to access it and import a saved configuration from the current box, then change the IP's and we'll be running on the new appliance.

Thought about the virtual appliance but there's no L4 interface option and although we have an IDS in place, redunancy with this is always a welcome option. 

[keithsauer507]

Anyone????

[Ken Stieers]

If for no other reason then being able to stay up to date, its worth it.

If the boxes have the same version code you can just import the config.

[keithsauer507]

I was given approval to spend the dollars on this, just wanted to gauge some opinion.  I also have an C160 email filter appliance, but this week I migrated it to the C100V in vmware.  Since there is not an L4 physical interface like the WSA, it was a piece of cake to just import the config over.  Its running really well.

I think tomorrow I will put the order through after sitting on it for 24 hours.  As much as I liked the other solution, like I said we would have to reinvent the wheel, and also basically throw the money down the drain that we just paid for with WSA filtering updates.