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: Firewall (FW) + Application Visibility and Control (AVC)(1024B)
70 Gbps
Throughput: FW + AVC + Intrusion Prevention System (IPS (1024B)
64 Gbps
Maximum concurrent sessions, with AVC
35 million
Maximum new connections per second, with AVC
490K
TLS (Hardware Decryption)
12 Gbps
Throughput: NGIPS (1024B)
73 Gbps
IPSec VPN throughput (1024B TCP w/Fastpath)
27 Gbps
URL filtering: number of categories
More than 80
URL filtering: number of URLs categorized
More than 280 million
Stateful inspection firewall throughput
80 Gbps
Stateful inspection firewall throughput (multiprotocol)
64 Gbps
Concurrent firewall connections
60 million
Firewall latency (UDP 64B microseconds)
3.5
New connections persecond
2 million
IPsec VPN throughput (450B UDP L2L test)
30 Gbps
MaximumVPN Peers
20,000
Security contexts (included; maximum)
10; 250
High availability
Active/active and active/standby
Clustering
Up to 16 security modules across up to 16 different Firepower 9300 chassis
Scalability
VPN load balancing, firewall clustering
Adaptive Security Device Manager
Web-based, local management for small-scale deployments
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