PIX 525
The PIX 525 replaced the PIX 520 in June 2001. It is advised for ample enterprise
or baby account provider environments.The diskette drive is gone; however,
the 525 still supports single- or four-port 10/100 Fast Ethernet, 4/16 Token
Ring, and dual-attached multimode FDDI cards but now additionally picks up Gigabit
Ethernet. Performance tells the adventure here: Based on the 600MHz Intel Pentium
III, the 525 boasts 360Mbps clear-text throughput and, with the accelerator card,
70Mbps of 3DES IPsec adit traffic.
Licensing is based on interface counts and failover, as with the beforehand models.
The belted authorization banned the PIX 525 to 128MB of RAM and six interfaces.
The complete bumps RAM to 256MB, allows up to eight interfaces, and supports
failover. As before, 3DES licensing is separate, if desired.