Cisco ASA 5510

Cisco ASA 5510 Features

Continuing our series of posts about the hardware and software features of ASA firewalls, this article focuses on the Cisco ASA 5510 model which is a very popular appliance for small to medium enterprises. Unlike the ASA 5505, this is a rack-mountable model (1U size) which supports also an add-on module (SSM – Security Services Module). Similarly with the 5505, the ASA 5510 comes also with two types of software licenses: Base License and Security Plus License, with the later offering advanced hardware and performance features.

In more detail, the Cisco ASA 5510 firewall features are the following:

• Maximum firewall connections: 50,000 (Base License), 130,000 (Security Plus License)
• Maximum firewall throughput (Mbps): 300 Mbps
• Max Packets per second (64 byte): 190,000
• Maximum firewall connections/second: 9,000
• Maximum 3DES/AES VPN throughput: 170 Mbps
• Maximum site-to-site and remote access VPN sessions: 250
  
• Maximum SSL VPN user sessions: 250
• Memory: 256 MB
• System Flash: 64MB
• Integrated ports: 5- 10/100 (Base License), 2-10/100/1000 + 3-10/100 (Security Plus)
  
• Maximum VLANs: 50 (Base License), 100 (Security Plus License)
• SSM Expansion Slots: 1 SSM module
• Intrusion Prevention: Supported (with AIP SSM)
  
• Content Security (anti-virus, anti-spyware, file blocking): Supported (with CSC SSM)
  
• Latest Software version: 8.2 (as of April 2009)
• Application-layer firewall services: Supported
• Layer 2 transparent firewall: Supported
• Security contexts: 0 (Base License), up to 5 (Security Plus License)
  
• GTP/GPRS inspection: Not Available
• High availability support: Not Available (Base License), Active/Standby and Active/Active (Security Plus)
• SSL and IPsec VPN services: Supported

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Filed under: Cisco ASA Hardware

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