Used Cisco PIX Firewall Series

Product Overview
Key Features and Benefits
Specifications

Cisco PIX Firewall Software Features

Ordering Information

Product Part Numbers
Minimum Software Versions

Cisco PIX 501 Firewall: Minimum Software Version: 6.1(1)
Cisco PIX 506 Firewall: Minimum Software Version: 5.1(2)
Cisco PIX 515 Firewall: Minimum Software Version: 4.4(1)
Cisco PIX 525 Firewall: Minimum Software Version: 5.2(1)
Cisco PIX 535 Firewall: Minimum Software Version: 5.3(1)

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Product Overview

The Cisco PIX Firewall series delivers strong security in an easy-to-install, integrated hardware/software firewall appliance that offers outstanding performance. Cisco`s world-leading PIX Firewall family spans the entire user application spectrum, from compact, plug-n-play desktop firewalls for small/home offices to carrier-class gigabit firewalls for the most demanding enterprise and service provider environments. Cisco PIX Firewalls deliver superior performance of up to 500,000 simultaneous connections and nearly 1.7 Gigabits per second (Gbps) aggregate throughput-while providing Cisco customers world-class security, reliability and customer service.

Key Features and Benefits

• Security - Cisco PIX Firewalls are purpose-built firewall appliances that utilize a proprietary, hardened operating system which eliminates security risks associated with general purpose operating systems. PIX firewalls also provide the latest in security technology ranging from stateful inspection firewalling, IPsec and L2TP/PPTP-based VPNs, content filtering capabilities, and integrated intrusion detection to help secure your network environment from next-generation attacks. At the heart of the PIX Firewall family is the adaptive security algorithm (ASA), which maintains the secure perimeters between the networks controlled by the firewall. The stateful, connection-oriented ASA design creates session flows based on source and destination addresses, TCP sequence numbers (which are non-predictable), port numbers, and additional TCP flags. All inbound and outbound traffic is controlled by applying security policies to each connection table entry.

• Performance - Cisco PIX firewall`s highly scalable, yet very secure architecture based upon stateful inspection technology and application-aware "fixups" provides state-of-the-art performance and robust security. With support for up to 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and 1.7 Gbps of throughput, PIX Firewalls can scale to meet the needs of the most demanding network environments.

• Reliability - Cisco PIX Firewalls provide resilient security services for mission-critical network environments by leveraging the integrated stateful failover capabilities within PIX. Network traffic can be automatically sent to a hot standby unit in the event of a failure, while maintaining concurrent connections via automated state synchronization between the primary and standby units.

• Virtual Private Networking (VPN) - Cisco PIX Firewalls support both standards-based IPsec and L2TP/PPTP-based VPN services, which are suitable for site-to-site and remote access VPN deployments. Tripe DES (3DES) based VPN throughput can be scaled to nearly 100 Mbps using the PIX VPN Accelerator Card (VAC), which offloads compute-intensive encryption/decryption processes to specialized cryptographic coprocessors.

• Network Address Translation (NAT) and Port Address Translation (PAT) - Cisco PIX Firewalls provide robust NAT and PAT services to conceal IP addresses of internal networks and to expand network address space for internal networks.

• Denial-of-Service (DoS) Attack Prevention - Cisco PIX Firewalls protect the firewall and networks behind them from disruptive network hacking attempts that could otherwise bring a network to a halt.

• Simple, Web-Based Management with PIX Device Manager (PDM) - Cisco PIX Firewalls provide a simple, easy-to-use web-based interface for centrally managing the configuration of PIX firewalls. Furthermore, PDM provides a wide range of informative, real-time, and historical reports which give critical insight into usage trends, performance baselines, and security events. PDM provides all the tools necessary to manage a firewall, all from the convenience of any web browser.

• Platform Extensibility - Cisco PIX Firewalls provide an extensible platform that can easily grow with your networking needs. With support from two 10/100 Ethernet interfaces all the way up to ten Gigabit Ethernet interfaces in a single firewall appliance solution, PIX Firewalls can fit your budget and your networking environment.

• Low Cost of Ownership - Simple installation and configuration minimizes time investment required for administrators to get PIX firewalls up and running. Minimal time investment combined with an impressive price/performance ratio enable Cisco PIX Firewalls to provide low total cost of ownership (TCO).

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