Cisco ASA 5500 Alternation Adaptive Aegis Appliances
The Cisco ASA 5500 Alternation Adaptive Aegis Apparatus (Figure 6-1) is the newest affiliate in the accumulation of Cisco
Firewall technology products. The ASA 5500 alternation includes multifunction Aegis Accessories delivering
converged firewall, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), avant-garde adaptive blackmail aegis casework including
Anti-X defenses, apparatus security, and VPN casework simplifying arrangement aegis solutions.
Figure 6-1. Cisco ASA 5500 Alternation Apparatus i
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The ASA 5500 Alternation is one of the key apparatus in the Cisco Self-Defending Arrangement initiative. At the heart
of the ASA 5500 Alternation architectonics is the Adaptive Identification and Acknowledgment (AIM) architectonics that provides
proactive blackmail mitigation, thereby endlessly attacks afore they advance through the network, arrangement activity
controls, and apparatus traffic. The AIM architectonics delivers flexible, high-performance site-to-site VPN,
remote admission VPN, and SSL VPN solutions.
In a distinct platform, the Cisco ASA 5500 Alternation offers the following:
Market-proven firewall, IPS, adaptive blackmail defense, and VPN capabilities
Adaptive identification and acknowledgment casework architecture, thereby carrying diminutive action ascendancy and
future casework extensibility
Saving all-embracing deployment and operational costs and bargain complexity
The Cisco ASA 5500 Alternation is an avant-garde apparatus that builds on the abyss and across of aegis features,
combining the afterward three industry-leading aegis and VPN technologies:
Firewall technology
IPS (inline) technology
VPN technology—IPsec, SSL (WebVPN), and AnyConnect VPN
Blending these assorted functions, the Cisco ASA 5500 Alternation delivers an incomparable best-of-breed in network
protection solutions. The Cisco ASA 5500 Alternation brings calm a avant-garde ambit of aegis and VPN technologies
to accommodate affluent apparatus security, Anti-X defenses, arrangement ascendancy and control, and defended connectivity
tightening the arrangement aegis posture.
Cisco ASA 5500 Alternation action bristles high-performance purpose-built accessories that amount small- and medium-sized
to ample action and account provider environments. Concurrent aegis casework architectonics lowers
operational complication and reduces the all-embracing deployment and operation costs.
ASA 5505: Cost-effective, easy-to-deploy apparatus for baby business, annex office, and enterprise
teleworkers environments with chip 8 anchorage 10/100 Fast Ethernet about-face (includes two Power over
Ethernet [PoE] ports)
ASA 5510: Cost-effective, easy-to-deploy apparatus for medium-sized business, remote/branch, and
enterprise environments with avant-garde aegis and networking services
ASA 5520: High-availability Active/Active casework and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity apparatus for
medium-sized action networks, in a modular, high-performance network
ASA 5540: High-density, with Active/Active high-availability casework and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity
with greater reliability, high-performance apparatus for medium-to-large enterprises and service-provider
networks
ASA 5550: Gigabit-class alms up to 1.2 Gbps firewall throughput, with Active/Active high-availability
services, and Fiber and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity; high-performance apparatus for ample action and
service-provider networks