Cisco ASA 5500 ASA5515 Cisco ASA firewall / appliance

Brand: Cisco | Category: Network Security

SKU: CSC-ASA5515 | Part #: ASA5515 | MPN: ASA5515

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Active/Standby high availability with sub-second failover is non-negotiable in production environments, and the Cisco ASA5515 delivers exactly that architecture. This 1U rack-mountable firewall appliance combines enterprise-grade threat defense with stateful failover capabilities, making it the go-to choice for network engineers who cannot afford downtime. The ASA5515 is part of the Cisco ASA 5500-X product series and integrates FirePOWER Services for comprehensive security posture across North American and Middle Eastern data centers.

Built around a 1.2 Gbps firewall throughput engine, the ASA5515 handles 250,000 maximum concurrent firewall connections and processes 15,000 new connections per second—sufficient for mid-tier enterprise traffic volumes. It delivers 250 Mbps IPS throughput and 250 Mbps VPN throughput (3DES/AES), protecting encrypted and inspection-intensive workloads without bottlenecking. The appliance provides 6 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces plus 1 dedicated management interface, 8 GB of RAM, and SSD storage. Security segmentation is supported through 2 security contexts (expandable to 5) and up to 100 VLANs. VPN scalability reaches 250 IPsec peers and 25 SSL VPN peers (expandable to 250). Two USB 2.0 ports enable local management and logging. Part number ASA5515 ensures procurement clarity across vendors and regional distributors.

Typical Enterprise Deployment Scenarios

• Branch office and remote site consolidation with redundant VPN tunneling to headquarters
• Multi-tenant segmentation using security contexts for managed service provider environments
• Encrypted traffic inspection and threat prevention at the perimeter with FirePOWER IPS
• High-availability failover for production networks requiring continuous availability and stateful session preservation
• Mid-scale data center east-west traffic filtering with VLAN isolation and encryption offload

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