Cisco releases new Firewalls, the ASA 5580
Following closely on the heals of the release of the 4Gbps IPS appliance, Cisco released the ASA5580 Firewall. It comes in two models, a 5Gbps (ASA5580-20) and a 10 Gbps model (ASA5580-40).
Now those aren’t backplane speeds or pie in the sky, UDP 1500 byte packet throughput numbers with protection turned off either. Vendors marketing teams love to quote us numbers that are meaningless in the real world. The performance numbers Cisco is quoting are real world performance numbers based on a mix of various rich media traffic samples with recommended firewall protection features turned on.
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