The ASA 5580 is the Flag-Ship Cisco ASA model. It comes as two versions, the ASA 5580-20 and the ASA 5580-40, which differ in the performance parameters. The ASA 5580 is basically an HP Server Chassis with 6 slots on the back for inserting interface card modules. The 5580 is designed for the largest and most traffic demanding network topologies. It is ideal for high-speed data centers and large campus networks. It supports the largest firewall throughput in the hardware firewall market, with 5 Gbps (5580-20) and 10 Gbps (asa 5580-40) capacity. It is also the only model supporting 10Gbps interfaces. Like the asa 5550, it does not support an embedded Security Services Module (SSM), so you cannot integrate IDS/IPS functionality inside the same chassis.
The features of the ASA 5580 in more detail below:
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The features of the ASA 5580 in more detail below:
- Maximum firewall connections:1,000,000 (5580-20), 2,000,000 (5580-40)
- Maximum firewall throughput (Gbps): 5 Gbps (5580-20), 10 Gbps (5580-40)
- Max Packets per second (64 byte): 2,500,000 (5580-20), 4,000,000 (5580-40)
- Maximum firewall connections/second: 90,000 (5580-20), 150,000 (5580-40)
- Maximum 3DES/AES VPN throughput: 1 Gbps
- Maximum site-to-site and remote access VPN sessions: 10,000
- Maximum SSL VPN user sessions: 10,000
- Memory: 8 GB (5580-20), 12 GB (5580-40)
- System Flash: 1 GB
- Integrated ports: 2-10/100/1000 + 4-10/100/1000 (with ASA5580-4GE-CU) + 4 GE SR LC (with ASA5580-4GE-FI), +2 10GE SR LC (with ASA5580-2X10GE-SR)
- Maximum VLANs: 250
- SSM Expansion Slots: Not Available
- Intrusion Prevention: Not Supported (need external box)
- Content Security (anti-virus, anti-spyware, file blocking): Not Supported
- IC Expansion Slots: 6 Interface Cards Supported
- Latest Software version:8.2 (as of April 2009)
- Application-layer firewall services: Supported
- Layer 2 transparent firewall: Supported
- Security contexts: 2 (Included), 20 (Maximum, with license)
- GTP/GPRS inspection: Supported (needs license)
- High availability support: Active/Active, Active/Standby
- SSL and IPsec VPN services: Supported
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