At-A-Glance
Upsell Guide—
Migrating Cisco PIX Requests to Cisco ASA 5500 Sales
ASA5520-SSL500-K9 6621351 CiscoASA5520SSL/IPsecVPNEdition,750IPsecVPNand500SSLVPNpeers,firewallservices,4GigabitEthernetports,1FastEthernetinterface
ASA5540-K8 6605511 CiscoASA5540FirewallEdition,4GigabitEthernetports+1FastEthernetinterface,5000IPsecVPNand2SSLVPNpeers,DES
ASA5540-BUN-K9 5822783 CiscoASA5540FirewallEdition,4GigabitEthernetports+1FastEthernetinterface,5000IPsecVPNand2SSLVPNpeers,3DES/AES
ASA5540-AIP20-K9 5822804 CiscoASA5540IPSEdition,AIP-SSM-20module,Firewallservices,5000IPsecVPNand2SSLVPNpeers,4GigabitEthernetports,1FastEthernetinterface
ASA5540-SSL1000-K9 6653547 CiscoASA5540SSL/IPsecVPNEdition,5000IPsecVPNand1000SSLVPNpeers,firewallservices,4GigabitEthernetports,1FastEthernetinterface
ASA5540-SSL2500-K9 6653555 CiscoASA5540SSL/IPsecVPNEdition,5000IPsecVPNand2500SSLVPNpeers,firewallservices,4GigabitEthernetports,1FastEthernetinterface
Cisco PIX 535
ASA5550-K8 6772781 CiscoASA5550FirewallEdition,8GigabitEthernetports+1FastEthernetinterface,4GigabitSFPports,5000IPsecVPNand2SSLVPNpeers,DES
ASA5550-BUN-K9 6772802 CiscoASA5550FirewallEdition,8GigabitEthernetports+1FastEthernetinterface,4GigabitSFPports,5000IPsecVPNand2SSLVPNpeers,3DES/AES
ASA5550-SSL2500-K9 6772811 CiscoASA5550SSL/IPsecVPNEdition,5000IPsecVPNand2500SSLVPNpeers,firewallservices,8GigabitEthernetports,1FastEthernetinterface
ASA5550-SSL5000-K9 6772829 CiscoASA5550SSL/IPsecVPNEdition,5000IPsecVPNand5000SSLVPNpeers,firewallservices,8GigabitEthernetports,1FastEthernetinterface
Product Specifications
Cisco ASA 5505 Cisco ASA 5510 Cisco ASA 5520 Cisco ASA 5540 Cisco ASA 5550
Users and nodes
10,50,orunlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Firewall throughput
Upto150Mbps Upto300Mbps Upto450Mbps Upto650Mbps Upto1.2Gbps
Concurrent threat
mitigation throughput
(firewall + IPS services)
Notavailable Upto150MbpswithCiscoASA
5500SeriesAdvancedInspection
andPreventionSecurityServices
Module(AIPSSM)10(partnumber
AIP-SSM-10);Upto300Mbpswith
CiscoASA5500SeriesAIPSSM20
(partnumberAIP-SSM-20)
Upto225MbpswithAIP-SSM-10;
Upto375MbpswithAIP-SSM-20
Upto450MbpswithAIP-SSM-20 Notavailable
3DES/AES VPN throughput
Upto100Mbps Upto170Mbps Upto225Mbps Upto325Mbps Upto360Mbps
IPsec VPN peers
10;25* 250 750 5000 5000
SSL VPN peers*
(included/maximum)
2/25 2/250 2/750 2/2500 2/5000
Concurrent sessions
10,000;25,000* 50,000;130,000* 280,000 400,000 650,000
New sessions per second
3,000 6,000 9,000 20,000 28,000
Integrated network ports
8-portFastEthernetswitch
(including2PoEports)
5FastEthernetports 4GigabitEthernetportsplus
1FastEthernetport
4GigabitEthernetportsplus
1FastEthernetport
8GigabitEthernetports,SFPfiber,
and1FastEthernetport
Virtual interfaces (VLANs)
3(trunkingdisabled)/
20*(trunkingenabled)
50/100* 150 200 250
Security contexts
(included/maximum)
0/0 0/0(Base);2/5(SecurityPlus) 2/20 2/50 2/50
High availability
Notsupported;
statelessActive/Standby*
Notsupported;Active/Activeand
Active/Standby*
Active/ActiveandActive/Standby Active/ActiveandActive/Standby Active/ActiveandActive/Standby
Expansion slot
1,SSC 1,SSM 1,SSM 1,SSM 0
*Availablethroughanupgradelicense
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ACRONYMS
SSC:SecurityServicesCard,SSM:SecurityServicesModule,AIP-SSM:AdvancedInspectionandPreventionSecurityServicesModule,CSC-SSM:ContentSecurityandControlSecurityServicesModule,4GE-SSM: 4GigabitEthernetSecurityServicesModule