Cisco PIX 506E
The Cisco PIX 506E Firewall was designed for the ROBO environment. It has a 300-MHz
Celeron processor, 32 MB of RAM, and 8 MB of Flash memory. It has a fixed outside
Ethernet interface and a fixed inside Ethernet interface. It has a 9600-baud console port that
is used for local device management. The PIX 506 does not support failover.
Connection capabilities for the PIX 506 are as follows:
■ Maximum clear-text throughput—100 Mbps
■ Maximum throughput (DES)—20 Mbps
■ Maximum throughput (3DES)—17 Mbps
■ Maximum throughput (AES-128)—30 Mbps
■ Maximum concurrent connections—25,000
■ Maximum concurrent VPN peers—25