company
f5
cisco
Intelligent Traffic Processing
L7 requests per second: 10M
L4 connections per second: 4.2M
L4 HTTP requests per second: 35M
Maximum L4 concurrent connections: 300M
Throughput: 320 Gbps/160 Gbps L4/L7
Hardware Offload SSL/TLS
ECC†: 100K TPS (ECDSA P-256)
RSA: 160K TPS (2K keys)
50 Gbps bulk encryption
FIPS SSL
N/A
Hardware Compression
60Gbps
Hardware DDoS Protection
210M SYN cookies per second
TurboFlex Performance Profiles
Tier 3 (4x BW)
Software Compression
N/A
Software Architecture
64-bit
TMOS
On-Demand Upgradable
N/A
Virtualization (Maximum Number of vCMP Guests)
56
Processor
Two 14-Core Intel Xeon processors
(total 56 hyperthreaded logical processor cores)
Memory
512GB DDR4
Hard Drive
1x 1.6TB Enterprise Class SSD
Throughput: FW + AVC (1024B)
45Gbps
Throughput: FW + AVC + IPS (1024B)
39Gbps
Maximum concurrent sessions, with AVC
30million
Maximum new connections per second, with AVC
263K
TLS (Hardware Decryption)
7.5Gbps
Throughput: NGIPS (1024B)
52Gbps
IPSec VPN Throughput (1024B TCP w/Fastpath)
14Gbps
Multi-Instance Capable
Yes
Application Visibility and Control (AVC)
Standard, supporting more than 4000 applications, as well as geolocations, users, and websites
AVC: OpenAppID support for custom, open source, application detectors
Standard
Cisco Security Intelligence
Standard, with IP, URL, and DNS threat intelligence
Cisco Firepower NGIPS
Available; can passively detect endpoints and infrastructure for threat correlation and Indicators of Compromise (IoC) intelligence
Cisco AMP for Networks
Available; enables detection, blocking, tracking, analysis, and containment of targeted and persistent malware, addressing the attack ontinuum both during and after attacks. Integrated threat correlation with Cisco AMP for Endpoints is also optionally available
Cisco AMP Threat Grid sandboxing
Available
URL Filtering: number of categories
More than 80
URL Filtering: number of URLs categorized
More than 280 million
Third-party and open- source ecosystem
Open API for integrations with third-party products; Snort® and OpenAppID community resources for new and specific threats
High availability and clustering
Active/standby. Cisco Firepower 4100 Series allows clustering of up to 6 chassis
Cisco Trust Anchor Technologies
Firepower 4100 Series platforms include Trust Anchor Technologies for supply chain and software image assurance.
Stateful inspection firewall throughput
75Gbps
Stateful inspection firewall throughput (multiprotocol)
50Gbps
Concurrent firewall connections
35million
Firewall latency (UDP 64B microseconds)
3.5
New connections per second
800,000
IPsec VPN throughput (450B UDP L2L test)
15Gbps
Maximum VPN Peers
20,000
Security contexts (included; maximum)
10; 250
High availability
Active/active and active/standby
Clustering
Up to 16 appliances
Scalability
VPN Load Balancing, Firewall Clustering
Centralized management
Centralized configuration, logging, monitoring, and reporting are performed by Cisco Security Manager
or alternatively in the cloud with Cisco Defense Orchestrator
Adaptive Security Device Manager
Web-based, local management for small-scale deployments
Storage
400GB