Cisco ASA 5540 Model
The Cisco ASA 5540 appliances provide security services to medium to large enterprises. The Cisco ASA 5540 model supports a higher number of security contexts (50) to provide more flexibility and compartmentalized control of security policies. It also provides support for up to 10 appliances in a VPN cluster, supporting a maximum of 50,000 IPSec VPN peers per cluster (25,000 for WebVPN).
Cisco ASA 5540 is also a 1RU device. The external front and back layouts of Cisco ASA 5540 appliance are identical to those of the Cisco ASA 5510 and 5520 appliances. Figure 3-5 illustrates the front view of Cisco ASA 5540.
Figure 3-5. Cisco ASA 5540 Front View
Figure 3-6 illustrates the back view of Cisco ASA 5540.
Figure 3-6. Cisco ASA 5540 Back View
Table 3-3 lists the capabilities of the Cisco ASA 5540 appliance and its performance and connection limit numbers.
Description |
Without VPN Plus License |
With VPN Plus License |
With VPN Premium License |
---|---|---|---|
Firewall throughput |
Up to 650 Mbps |
Up to 650 Mbps |
Up to 650 Mbps |
3DES/AES IPSec VPN throughput |
Up to 325 Mbps |
Up to 325 Mbps |
Up to 325 Mbps |
Connections |
280,000 |
280,000 |
280,000 |
IPSec VPN peers |
500 |
2000 |
5000 |
WebVPN peers |
500 |
1250 |
2500 |
Interfaces |
Four Gigabit Ethernet ports for security services and one Fast Ethernet port for OOB management |
Four Gigabit Ethernet ports for security services and one Fast Ethernet port for OOB management |
Four Gigabit Ethernet ports for security services and one Fast Ethernet port for OOB management |
Virtual interfaces (VLANs) |
100 |
100 |
100 |
High availability |
Active/Active and Active/Standby |
Active/Active and Active/Standby |
Active/Active and Active/Standby |
VPN scalability |
VPN clustering and load balancing |
VPN clustering and load balancing |
VPN clustering and load balancing |
Threat mitigation throughput (IPS, firewall, and Anti-X) |
Up to 450 Mbps with AIP-SSM-20 |
Up to 450 Mbps with AIP-SSM-20 |
Up to 450 Mbps with AIP-SSM-20 |
Security contexts |
Up to 50 |
Up to 50 |
Up to 50 |