I work in a school and we need to reconfigure an old Cisco ASA 5512-X for routing and firewall purposes. Despite the ASA having 1GbE ports, it's throughput is limited depending on what it is doing. According to Cisco's specifications, it's throughput for different services are:
ASA IPS throughput:250 Mbps (extra hardware not required)
Triple Data Encryption Standard/Advanced Encryption Standard (3DE/AES) VPN thoughput:200 Mbps
We have a 200Mb up/200Mb down Internet connection and do perform web-filtering (performed on a separate device) that decrypts, inspects and re-encypts the data on the fly.
I want the ASA configured purely as a router and firewall so that only certain required ports are open and others can be configured if/when required.
My question: Is this ASA actually going to throttle the connection to 200Mbs, rather than the combined 400Mbs we receive?
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I work in a school and we need to reconfigure an old Cisco ASA 5512-X for routing and firewall purposes. Despite the ASA having 1GbE ports, it's throughput is limited depending on what it is doing. According to Cisco's specifications, it's throughput for different services are:
ASA IPS throughput:250 Mbps (extra hardware not required)
Next-generation firewall throughput (multiprotocol):200 Mbps
Triple Data Encryption Standard/Advanced Encryption Standard (3DE/AES) VPN thoughput:200 Mbps
We have a 200Mb up/200Mb down Internet connection and do perform web-filtering (performed on a separate device) that decrypts, inspects and re-encypts the data on the fly.
I want the ASA configured purely as a router and firewall so that only certain required ports are open and others can be configured if/when required.
My question: Is this ASA actually going to throttle the connection to 200Mbs, rather than the combined 400Mbs we receive?
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