[c-nsp] Cisco ASA 5550 Throughput

[Ryan West]

On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 11:15:56, Covalciuc Piotr wrote:
> Subject: [c-nsp] Cisco ASA 5550 Throughput
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Can anybody explain me what is the maximum throughput of Cisco ASA- 
> 5550?
> 
> By the specification it's 1.2Gbps. But it's divided on 2 buses: slot0 
> and slot1 with 600Mbps of throughput each.
> If traffic flows via ASA, it enters to slot0 and it exit from slot1:
> 

Peter,

It's 1 gbps across the bus, but each one of the slots can handle a total of 600 mbps.  So that would mean 600 max passing between those slots.   With your drawing if you just had 1 interface on each bus, it would be 600 in and 600 out.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/asa/quick_start/5500/5500_quick_start.html#wp35995

-ryan