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Cisco ASA 5500 Series Model/License

5505 Base/Security Plus

5510 Base/Security Plus

5520

7.2.2

7.2.2

Small Business, Branch Office,

Enterprise Teleworker

SMB and Small Enterprise

Small Enterprise

Maximum firewall throughput (Mbps)

150

300

450

Maximum 3DES/AES VPN throughput (Mbps)

100

170

225

Maximum site-to-site and remote access VPN user

sessions

25-Oct

250

750

Maximum SSL VPN user sessions1

25

250

750

Maximum connections

10,000/25,000 Recomendaciones 50,000/130,000

Maximum connections/second

3,000

Packets per second (64 byte)

85,000

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version

7.2.2
(latest)

Market

Performance Summary

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280,000

9,000

320,000

Technical Summary

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Memory (MB)

256

256

512

System flash (MB)

64

64

64

Integrated ports

8 port 10/100 switch with 2 Power

over Ethernet ports

4-10/100/1000,
5-10/100
1-10/100

Maximum virtual interfaces (VLANs)

3 (trunking disabled) / 20 (trunking

enabled)

50/100

150

SSC/SSM expansion slot

Yes (SSC)

Yes (SSM)

Yes (SSM)

SSC/SSMs supported

Future, SSC

CSC-SSM, AIP-SSM, 4GE-SSM

CSC-SSM, AIP
SSM, 4GE

Intrusion Prevention

Not available

Yes (with AIP-SSM)

Yes (with
SSM)

150 (with AIP-SSM-10)

225 (with
10)

300 (with AIP-SSM-20)

375 (with
20)

Yes (with CSC-SSM)

Yes (with
SSM)

500 (CSC-SSM-10)

500 (CSC

1000 (CSC-SSM-20)

1000 (CSC
20)

SSC/SSM Capabilities

Concurrent threat mitigation throughput (Mbps)

(firewall + IPS services)

Anti-X (anti-virus, anti-spyware, file blocking, antispam, anti-phishing, and URL filtering)

Maximum number of users for anti-virus, antispyware, file blocking (CSC-SSM only)

Not available

Not available

Not available

Not available

Anti-spam, anti
Anti-spam, anti-phishing, URL filtering phishing,
filtering

Application-layer security

Yes

Yes

Yes

Layer 2 transparent firewalling

Yes

Yes

Yes

Security contexts (included/maximum)3

0/0

0/0 / 2/5

20-Feb

GTP/GPRS inspection3

Not available

Not available

Yes

High availability support4

Not supported / Stateless A/S

Not supported / A/A and A/S

A/A and A/S

CSC SSM Plus License features

Features

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Yes

VPN clustering and load balancing

Not available

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Yes

Not available

Yes

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

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1Beginning with Cisco ASA Software v7.1, SSL VPN (Web VPN) capability requires a license. Systems include 2 SSL VPN users by default for evaluation and re
2 Dedicated out-of-band (OOB) management port (will not route any traffic through the Cisco ASA 5510 Adaptive Security Appliance)

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3 Licensed features

4 A/S = Active/Standby; A/A = Active/Active

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