Cisco Systems ASA5580-40-BUN-K9

The Cisco ASA 5580-40 Adaptive Security Appliance delivers multigigabit security services for large enterprise, data center, and service-provider networks in a robust, 4-rack-unit form factor. The Cisco ASA 5580 accommodates high-density copper and optical interfaces with scalability from Fast Ethernet to 10Gigabit Ethernet, enabling unparalleled security and deployment flexibility. Cisco ASA 5580 Adaptive Security Appliances include six interface card expansion slots with support for up to 24 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces or up to 12 10Gigabit Ethernet interfaces that simplify provisioning and enable campus segmentation. Furthermore, this high-density design enables security virtualization while retaining physical segmentation desired in managed security and infrastructure consolidation applications.The high-end Cisco ASA 5580-40 features 14Gbps firewall performance. Its multicore, multiprocessor architecture delivers radical scalability for the most demanding network security and VPN concentration applications. Real-time applications can be transparently secured thanks to the extremely low latency, high session concurrency, and connection setup rates. Cisco ASA 5580 Adaptive Security Appliances can also be clustered to provide improved reliability and scalability, with support for up to 100,000 SSL or IPsec remote-access clients when deploying 10 appliances in a cluster. Additional features including security virtualization through the use of security contexts and VLANs, increase service velocity while reducing operational and administrative overhead.

• Market-proven security and VPN capabilities
• Extensible services architecture
• Reduced deployment and operations costs