From: Farrukh Haroon (farrukhharoon@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Feb 07 2009 - 05:12:51 ARST
You can find a side-by-side comparison here:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6120/prod_models_comparison.html
All vendors have their particular pros and cons, everybody can't afford a
BMW (or a Daewoo for that matter).
E.g. with Juniper who have to buy a separate box for SSL VPN etc.
Regards
Farrukh
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Christopher Copley
<copley.chris@gmail.com>wrote:
> Well, my vote was for the Juniper Netscreens, but I got over ruled. The
> reason we are going from Checkpoint to ASA is really for 2 reasons...
> 1. Political
> 2. Costs
>
> My management is die hard Cisco every thing! Plus the way we buy
> Checkpoint and do support puts a serious hurt on us. The cost of the
> Checkpoint is 7 or 8 times higher than a comp Cisco model. And out
> support
> cost and times are very poor. With out getting into a very long story, it
> is a much better deal go Cisco than Checkpoint. Plus it means more
> training
> for me! And that is never a bad thing!
>
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Felix Nkansah <felixnkansah@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi Chris,
> > The 5505 uses switched ports instead of the routed ports you would see in
> > the higher models.
> >
> > One has to use SVIs for L3 stuff on the 5505 therefore (like we do on the
> > FWSM).
> >
> > The 5505 does not support security contexts and stateful failover (even
> > though it supports bare active/standby failover).
> >
> > Get a box with a security plus license anyway if you want to enjoy enough
> > functionalities.
> >
> > By the way, why are you replacing Checkpoint with Cisco? It's like
> > replacing BMWs with Daewoo.
> >
> > If you have to introduce new firewall/IDS/IPS/UTM stuff in your network,
> I
> > would advise you to go for Juniper products instead.
> >
> > 2 cents!
> >
> > Felix
> > ccie r&s, security
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Christopher Copley <
> > copley.chris@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Group,
> >>
> >> My company is moving away from Checkpoints to ASA's. I have got my
> >> management to buy me 2 ASA 5505's for my lab to learn. My question is,
> >> how
> >> does the 5505's compare to the 5510 and above? Is there much that I
> will
> >> not be able to test or practice with the 5505's, or major differences?
> >>
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >>
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