Best in Class Security Appliance
The Cisco® ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances deliver a powerful combination of multiple market-proven technologies in a single platform, making it operationally and economically feasible for organizations to deploy comprehensive security services to more locations. The Cisco ASA 5500 Series offers enterprises a comprehensive portfolio of services that are customized through product editions tailored for firewall, intrusion prevention (IPS), anti–X, and VPN.

These editions enable superior protection by providing the right services for the right location. Each edition combines a focused set of Cisco ASA services to meet the needs of specific environments within the enterprise network. By meeting the security needs of each location, the overall network security posture is raised.

The Cisco ASA 5500 Series enables standardization on a single platform to reduce the overall operational cost of security. A common environment for configuration simplifies management and reduces training costs for staff, while the common hardware platform of the series reduces sparing costs.

Whether you're looking to deploy new security services or just to refresh your existing network, migrating your older Cisco equipment, such as Cisco PIX 500 and Cisco VPN 3000 Series concentrators, to the ASA 5500 Series delivers tangible business and technological advantages.

— Trusted Firewall and Threat–Protected VPN Technology
— Industry–Leading Anti–X Services
— Advanced Intrusion Prevention Services
— Rich Management and Monitoring Services
— Reduced Deployment and Operations Costs

Cisco Security Products Migration Opportunity
Customers with older security products will benefit from increased capabilities in Cisco ASA 5500 Series appliances, as well as the opportunity to add security services such as IPS, Anti–X, and SSL VPN. Increased capabilities include higher performance, advanced application inspection, Active/Active failover, transparent firewalling, Multimedia/VoIP security on the Cisco ASA 5500 models. In addition, as of June 2006 and of August 2007, Cisco PIX 520 models and Cisco VPN 3000 Series concentrators respectively are no longer sold by Cisco, making them ideal candidates for replacement by Cisco ASA 5500.

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