Just providing another opinion on why someone would choose cisco over free alternatives. This Cisco ASA Tutorial gets back to the basics regarding Cisco ASA firewalls. The 5505 in its various license levels is the entry to the Cisco ASA family of security appliances. I love pfsense, and like i said it has run our business for 8 years without any downtime.
Cisco asa 5505 smartnet price software license#
Yes you do need to have a relationship with a good VAR to get stuff from cisco, but we buy desk phones and licenses for them all the time so we do have that relationship. This Cisco ASA5505-SW-50-UL Upgrade ASA 5505 50-to-unlimited User Software License is available from a wholesale supplier of ours, however no price is currently in our database.
This Item: Cisco SMARTnet Extended Service Agreement. I have not used the device yet because its still in testing, but i do look forward to it based on the demo. Show More Information (if available) There is no additional information at this time. I am not saying I agree with the decision, but there is some concern from management that we should be watching traffic more and the cisco asa 5508 with firepower has a literally beautiful user interface and when we saw it demo'ed was quite intuitive. Im sure squid may do these things but it doesnt work out of the box and cisco provides downloads of rule updates and such which work better and do not require one to constantly tweak the device. The reason for the purchase is that the cisco ASA can do neat things like deep packet inspection, viewing inside ssl encrypted transactions (which should be illegal but hey) and much more monitoring and analytics than we could get with squid. I use the Z1s in the branch locations configured for pass-through site-to-site VPN to the 5515.
Luckily we have a valid support contract and a patch is available as of yesterday for this vuln (i just looked). The other name brand I would look at is (Z1 is the 5505 equivalent) they are owned by Cisco but for half the price of a 5505 (200 vs 500) and their cloud based configuration is the best Ive ever seen its all web based.
Cisco asa 5505 smartnet price install#
After having a rock solid pfsense install for 8 years with zero downtime, our IT manager has decided to purchase a cisco ASA to replace it.