Managed Firewall - Comparison Chart

The first section of this chart compares the technical features of the various firewall devices which Primus supports.
For an explanation of many of the technical terms in this chart, please refer to the FAQ page.

The remaining sections of this chart outline the pricing for the hardware, the annual hardware support contracts, and Primus' Managed Firewall service.

Cisco ASA 5500 Series
Model/License
5505
Base/Security
Plus
5510
Base/Security
Plus
5520
5540
5550
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version (latest)
7.2.2
7.2.2
7.2.2
7.2.2
7.2.2
Market
Small Business, Branch Office, Enterprise Teleworker
SMB and Small Enterprise
Small Enterprise
Medium Enterprise
Large Enterprise
A - PERFORMANCE SUMMARY
Maximum firewall throughput (Mbps)
150
300
450
650
1200
Maximum 3DES/AES VPN throughput (Mbps)
100
170
225
325
425
Maximum site-to-site and remote access VPN user sessions
10/25
250
750
5,000
5,000
Maximum SSL VPN user sessions1
25
250
750
2,500
5,000
Maximum connections
10,000/25,000
50,000/130,000
280,000
400,000
650,000
Maximum connections/second
3,000
6,000
9,000
20,000
28,000
Packets per second (64 byte)
85,000
190,000
320,000
500,000
600,000
Technical Summary
Memory (MB)
256
256
512
1024
4096
Minimum system flash (MB)
64
64
64
64
64
Integrated ports2
8 port 10/100 switch with 2 Power over Ethernet ports
5-
10/100
4-
10/100/1000,
1-10/100
4-
10/100/1000,
1-10/100
8-
10/100/1000,
1-10/100
Maximum virtual interfaces (VLANs)
3 (trunking disabled) / 20 (trunking enabled)
50/100
150
200
250
Intrusion Prevention
Not available
Yes (with AIP-SSM)
Yes (with AIP-SSM)
Yes (with AIP-SSM)
No
Concurrent threat mitigation throughput (Mbps) (firewall + IPS services)
Not available
150 (with AIP-SSM-10)
300 (with AIP-SSM-20)
225 (with AIP-SSM-10)
375 (with AIP-SSM-20)
450 (with AIP-SSM-20)
Not available
Features
Application-layer security
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Layer 2 transparent firewalling
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Security contexts (included/maximum)3
0/0
0/0 / 2/5
2/20
2/50
2/50
GTP/GPRS inspection3
Not available
Not available
Yes
Yes
Yes
High availability support4
Not supported / Stateless A/S
Not supported / A/A and A/S
A/A and A/S
A/A and A/S
A/A and A/S
IPSec and WebVPN services
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
VPN clustering and load balancing
Not available
Not available
Yes
Yes
Yes
B - HARDWARE PRICING (YOU HAVE THE CHOICE OF BUYING OR RENTING THE HARDWARE)
Option 1 - Purchase Price
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Option 2 - Monthly Rental Price5
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C - ANNUAL CISCO SMARTNET SUPPORT CONTRACT (REQUIRED IF YOU PURCHASE THE FIREWALL)
Option 1 - 8x5xNBD response (annual fee)
Call
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Option 2 - 24x7x4hour response (annual fee)
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Optional 1 hour recovery by Primus (annual fee)5
Call
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D - PRIMUS MANAGED FIREWALL SERVICE
Initial Configuration and Setup Fee678
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Managed Services fee
per Month 9
Call
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Call
Call
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Free Rule changes per month1011
2
2
2
2
2

1 Beginning with Cisco ASA Software v7.1, SSL VPN (Web VPN) capability requires a license. Systems include 2 SSL VPN users by default for evaluation and remote management purposes
2 Dedicated out-of-band (OOB) management port (a Cisco ASA 5510 Adaptive Security Appliance with the security+ license or higher model is required to make this interface route traffic)
3 Licensed features
4 A/S = Active/Standby; A/A = Active/Active5 Only available to clients on the 24x7x4hr Smartnet plan and only for firewalls located at Primus’ Internet Data Centre.
6 Includes a one-hour review/planning meeting at Primus’ location.
7 The setup fee will increase by $400 for each additional NIC configured on the firewall.
8 The setup fee will increase by $100 for a NAT configuration.
9 The monthly fee will increase by $100 for each additional NIC configured on the firewall.
10 Rule changes will be implemented within one business day. Additional rule changes beyond the free allocation in a month are $50.
11 Emergency changes (4 hour turn-around, 24x7) are billed at a flat fee of $100.
12 Taxes extra on all prices.