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The Cisco ASA5520-BUN-K9 firewall provides connectivity options of 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports and 1 Fast Ethernet Port. In addition, it also allows 750 IPsec VPN peers, Active/Active and Active/Standby high availability modes and provides a 3DES/AES license. Now, as a solution expert in network security, we recommend you utilize AES over 3DES in your network. AES is more efficient in security and slightly harder to crack when it comes to unwanted attacks.

Next, IPsec allows protection for Virtual Private Network IP traffic through methods of encryption. This should be a common feature sought after in any hardware firewall if plan of tunneling traffic from your VPN across a non-secure public extranet or the Internet.

Another notability feature set of this Cisco ASA 5520 firewall includes the high availability modes available to you for configuration. The main functionality of Active/Active mode allows all system requests to be load-balanced between the devices processing capacity. In the event of a failure, the secondary node takes over to ensure functionality is not lost. In Active/Standby, the standby functionality is not utilized until the Active node has failed. Meaning, no processing power is being utilized from the Standby node.

Vology hopes these pieces of information help clear up any technical points surrounding the capability of this product. Remember, we want you to select the most appropriate hardware firewall to secure your network. If you have any questions in the price or technical requirements, feel free to contact us.