Introduction

Cisco® ASA 5500 and ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls integrate the world's most proven stateful inspection firewall with a comprehensive suite of highly integrated next-generation firewall services for networks of all sizes - small and midsize businesses with one or a few locations, large enterprises, service providers, and mission-critical data centers. The Cisco ASA 5500 and ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls deliver MultiScale™ performance with unprecedented services flexibility, including next-generation firewall capabilities, modular scalability, feature extensibility, and lower deployment and operations costs.

Ports & interfaces

Connectivity technology

Wired

Interface

Fiber

Fiber ports quantity

6

Fiber optic connector

SFP

Network

Maximum data transfer rate

1000 Mbit/s

Fiber ethernet cabling technology

1000BASE-LH, 1000BASE-LX, 1000BASE-SX

Design

Internal

Yes

LED indicators

Yes

System requirements

Windows operating systems supported

Yes

Linux operating systems supported

Yes