Cisco ASA 5510 Security Appliance
The Cisco ASA 5510 Security Appliance is an advanced firewall and VPN solution designed
for small to medium-size businesses, as well as remote offices. The ASA 5510 is a powerful
security device, running on a 1.6-GHz Celeron processor, with up to 256 MB of RAM and
64 MB of Flash memory.
The ASA 5510 can be configured for failover only with the Cisco ASA 5510 Security Plus
license upgrade.
The ASA 5510 does not support the Security Context feature. No VLAN support is available
for the ASA 5510 without a Security Plus upgrade. The upgrade will enable support for ten
VLANs. The ASA 5510 supports both IPSec VPNs and SSL VPNs (WebVPN).
Connection capabilities for the ASA 5510 Security Appliance are as follow:
■ Maximum firewall throughput—300 Mbps
■ Maximum throughput (with AIP-SSM-10)—150 Mbps
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■ Maximum VPN throughput—170 Mbps
■ Maximum concurrent connections—32,000/64,000*
■ Maximum concurrent IPSec VPN peers—50/150*
■ Maximum concurrent WebVPN peers—50/150*
Two licenses are available for the ASA 5510. The Base software license enables the standard
functions of the ASA Security Appliance, including 50 IPSec VPN peers. The Security Plus
software license adds more VPN peers, enables VLAN support, and LAN-based failover
support. Table 3-7 describes the available licenses and their functions.