Cisco PIX 500 Series Aegis Appliances
Cisco flagship and industry-leading PIX 500 Series Aegis Apparatus provides absolute security,
performance, and believability for arrangement environments of all sizes, alms an arrangement of multitiered solutions. It is
a ancestors of specialized accessories that accommodate able-bodied chip arrangement aegis services, including stateful
inspection firewalling, VPNs, and inline advance detection.
The committed software agent incorporates the advanced Cisco Adaptive Aegis Algorithm, which
provides stateful analysis firewall casework by ecology the accompaniment of all accustomed arrangement communications
while preventing crooked arrangement access. Cisco PIX Aegis Accessories action an added band of security
by amalgam added than two dozen purpose-built analysis engines that accomplish all-embracing packet examination
for the best accepted applications and protocols acclimated today. The Cisco PIX Aegis Apparatus provides a wide
range of chip aegis casework in an easy-to-deploy, high-performance solution.
THe Cisco PIX 500 Series ambit from desktop accessories for baby and home offices to modular gigabit
appliances for action and service-provider environments, as apparent in Table 6-1. (Note that photos are not
available for the Cisco PIX 506E and Cisco PIX 515E.)
Table 6-1. Cisco PIX 500 Series Devices
Device Description
Cisco PIX 501 Compact, plug-n-play Aegis Appliance
for baby office/home office
environments. PIX 501 appliances
provide an chip 4-port Fast
Ethernet (10/100) about-face and a Fast
Ethernet (10/100) interface.
Cisco PIX 506E Cost-effective, high-performance
Security Apparatus for remote
office/branch appointment environments. PIX
506E provides two auto-sensing Fast
Ethernet (10/100) interfaces.
Cisco PIX 515E Modular, high-performance Security
Appliance for small-to-medium and
enterprise arrangement environments. PIX
515E apparatus is a modular one-rackunit
design acknowledging up to six 10/100
Fast Ethernet interfaces.
Cisco PIX 525 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity, modular
Security Apparatus for medium-to-large
Device Description Aegis Apparatus for medium-to-large
enterprise arrangement environments. PIX
525 apparatus is a modular two-rack-unit
design acknowledging up to eight 10/100
Fast Ethernet interfaces or three Gigabit
Ethernet interfaces.
Cisco PIX 535 Highly modular, high-performance
Gigabit Ethernet connectivity Security
Appliance for action and service
provider arrangement environments. PIX 535
appliance is a modular three-rack-unit
design acknowledging up to ten 10/100 Fast
Ethernet interfaces or nine Gigabit
Ethernet interfaces and bombastic power
supplies.
Note
Cisco PIX 506, 515, and 520 Firewall models accept accomplished end of auction (EOS).