[c-nsp] S/W for ASA 5550

[christian]

Hi Peter,

I've been running 7.2(3) in a production network terminating around 10 l2l
vpn tunnels, ravpn, and passing about 90+mbps of traffic consistently since
october..i've found no issues at all lately,stability seems to be great so
far for an ED release.

I've also just deployed 8.0(3) in a lab environment passing about 10+mbps of
traffic, with a couple tunnels and ravpn/webpvn doing testing

thus far, 8.0 brings some great new features like the new extensons for
debugging crypto , ssl for syslog connections, and renaming acl's

not sure how the 5580's compare, i havent really looked into them much yet,
but pricing is around 50k for the 5580-20 and 100k for the 5580-40 i THINK






On 1/27/08, Peter Rathlev <peter at rathlev.dk> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm tasked with recommending a "stable" software version for an ASA
> 5550, not that I know a lot about it. :-)
>
> My standard answer would've been to choose the oldest still maintained
> version, like 7.0(7) (or 7.0(6) which has an EAL4+ tag), but I can't
> seem to find out if ASA 5550 is supported with that version. Until 7.2
> release notes, the 5550 isn't mentioned at all.
>
> OTOH it seems like it's just a 5540 with built in 4GE card and a faster
> processor. As far as I can see, it doesn't do anything speciel compared
> to 5540.
>
> On a side note: Is it really true when they say the 5580-40 can do 14
> Gb/s "real life" firewalled throughput at 4 Mpps? The FWSM can do 5.5
> Gb/s at 2.8 Mpps according to the data sheet. I don't know the price of
> the 5580, but if it's less than twice the price of the FWSM it's very
> interesting performance wise...
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
>
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