Cisco secure firewall
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A beast that would stand up to the prevailing trends of pervasive traffic encryption, assume it as a performance baseline, and crush those numbers across the industry. Something built for resilience and scale while maintaining simplicity. Bundle of PowerĪfter delivering that software performance goodness into our customers’ hands, it was time to follow on with a fundamentally new hardware architecture. If I want to be an industry-first (if not industry-only) at something, delivering long-lasting customer value like that is definitely it. It substantially increased (and doubled in some cases!) both threat protection and VPN performance across all supported firewall appliances – including ASA5508-X from about 7 years ago – through a simple software upgrade. Instead of asking you to go through the fun exercise of forklifting hardware more often, we released Secure Firewall Threat Defense 7.0 last year to do something magical. Something bigger and better has been in the works for a while, but my personal preference has always been to optimize the software first and then purpose-build great hardware for it.
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It’s been a minute since our last major hardware refresh, largely due to the future-proof architecture of all Secure Firewall appliances. That said, some hardware upgrades are certainly worth it. No one enjoys forking out gobs of money and spending sleepless implementation hours every few years in exchange for a shiny new box with largely the same architecture as the old one, save for maybe a slightly faster CPU.
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No amount of flashy vendor marketing materials with the obligatory “industry-first” promises peppered all over can make up for this unglamorous exercise. If I learned one thing from my firewall customers over the many years, it would be that they like to upgrade their hardware appliances as much as an average consumer likes to shop for a new car.
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“I so look forward to the next firewall hardware upgrade cycle!”
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