[c-nsp] BGP support on the new ASA5585-X

[cisconsp at SecureObscure.com]

30k for an ASR 1002 vs. 225k for an ASA 5585?
The 1002's support VASI (VRF aware service infrastructure) and ZBF,
(mpls+bgp+ldp+ospf), making them a passable inter-vrf mpls-vpn
transport/routing/firewall device.

John


-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Keegan Holley
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 9:54 AM
To: Mack O'Brian
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] BGP support on the new ASA5585-X

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Mack O'Brian <mackobrian40 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Chris Evans <chrisccnpspam2 at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > If you have to have cisco you could use an asr1k.  They support line
rate
> > stateful firewalling and all routing protocols that you could think of.
> >
>
>
> After reading your comment on asr1k, I started reading and here is what
> Cisco marketing says; how good asr1k be in reality for fw is something
> different:
>
> "Up to 20 Gbps of Zone Based Firewall, Deep Packet Inspection, in-box
> stateful firewall failover for nonstop services, all firewall processing
> done in Cisco Quantum Flow Processor, Integrated threat control to prevent
> and defend against attacks."
>

sounds expensive...
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