company
Fortinet
cisco
f5
cisco
IPS Throughput
۶Gbps
Threat Protection
۴Gbps
NGFW
۵Gbps
Interfaces
Multiple GE RJ45, GE SFP and 10 GE SFP+ slots
IPv4 Firewall Throughput
۵۲ / ۵۲ / ۳۳ Gbps
IPv6 Firewall Throughput
۵۲ / ۵۲ / ۳۳ Gbps
Firewall Latency (64 byte, UDP)
۳ μs
Firewall Throughput (Packet per Second)
۴۹.۵Mpps
Concurrent Sessions (TCP)
۱۱ Million
New Sessions/Second (TCP)
۲۸۰,۰۰۰
Firewall Policies
۱۰۰,۰۰۰
IPsec VPN Throughput (512 byte)
۲۵Gbps
SSL-VPN Throughput
۳.۶ Gbps
Concurrent SSL-VPN Users
۱۰,۰۰۰
Throughput: FW + AVC (1024B)
۴۵Gbps
Throughput: FW + AVC + IPS (1024B)
۳۹Gbps
Maximum concurrent sessions, with AVC
۳۰million
۳۰Million
Maximum new connections per second, with AVC
۲۶۳K
۱۳۰K
TLS (Hardware Decryption)
۷.۵Gbps
۷.۵Gbps
Throughput: NGIPS (1024B)
۵۲Gbps
۳۰Gbps
IPSec VPN Throughput (1024B TCP w/Fastpath)
۱۴Gbps
۱۳.۵Gbps
Multi-Instance Capable
Yes
Application Visibility and Control (AVC)
Standard, supporting more than 4000 applications, as well as geolocations, users, and websites
AVC: OpenAppID support for custom, open source, application detectors
Standard
Standard
Cisco Security Intelligence
Standard, with IP, URL, and DNS threat intelligence
Standard, with IP, URL, and DNS threat intelligence
Cisco Firepower NGIPS
Available; can passively detect endpoints and infrastructure for threat correlation and Indicators of Compromise (IoC) intelligence
Available; can passively detect endpoints and infrastructure for threat correlation and
Indicators of Compromise (IoC) intelligence
Cisco AMP for Networks
Available; enables detection, blocking, tracking, analysis, and containment of targeted and persistent malware, addressing the attack ontinuum both during and after attacks. Integrated threat correlation with Cisco AMP for Endpoints is also optionally available
Cisco AMP Threat Grid sandboxing
Available
Available
URL Filtering: number of categories
More than 80
More than 80
URL Filtering: number of URLs categorized
More than 280 million
More than 280 Million
Third-party and open- source ecosystem
Open API for integrations with third-party products; Snort® and OpenAppID community resources for new and specific threats
High availability and clustering
Active/standby. Cisco Firepower 4100 Series allows clustering of up to 6 chassis
Active/standby; up to 6 modules across up to 6 different Firepower 9300 chassis.
Cisco Trust Anchor Technologies
Firepower 4100 Series platforms include Trust Anchor Technologies for supply chain and software image assurance.
Cisco Firepower 9300 Series platforms include Trust Anchor Technologies for supply chain
and software image assurance.
Stateful inspection firewall throughput
۷۵Gbps
۷۵Gbps
Stateful inspection firewall throughput (multiprotocol)
۵۰Gbps
۵۰Gbps
Concurrent firewall connections
۳۵million
۵۵Million
Firewall latency (UDP 64B microseconds)
۳.۵
۳.۵
New connections per second
۸۰۰,۰۰۰
۸۰۰,۰۰۰
IPsec VPN throughput (450B UDP L2L test)
۱۵Gbps
۱۵Gbps
Maximum VPN Peers
۲۰,۰۰۰
۲۰,۰۰۰
Security contexts (included; maximum)
۱۰; ۲۵۰
۱۰;۲۵۰
High availability
Active/active and active/standby
Active/active and active/standby
Clustering
Up to 16 appliances
Up to 16 security modules across up to 16 different Firepower 9300 chassis
Scalability
VPN Load Balancing, Firewall Clustering
VPN load balancing, firewall clustering
Centralized management
Centralized configuration, logging, monitoring, and reporting are performed by Cisco Security Manager
or alternatively in the cloud with Cisco Defense Orchestrator
Centralized configuration, logging, monitoring, and reporting are performed by Cisco Security Manager
or alternatively in the cloud with Cisco Defense Orchestrator
Adaptive Security Device Manager
Web-based, local management for small-scale deployments
Web-based, local management for small-scale deployments
Storage
۴۰۰GB
Intelligent Traffic Processing
L7 requests per second: 5.5M
L4 connections per second: 2.1M
L4 HTTP requests per second: 25M
Maximum L4 concurrent connections: 140M
Throughput: 160 Gbps/80 Gbps L4/L7
Hardware Offload SSL/TLS
ECC†: ۴۸K TPS (ECDSA P-256)
RSA: 80K TPS (2K keys)
۴۰Gbps bulk encryption
FIPS SSL
N/A
Hardware Compression
۴۰Gbps
Hardware DDoS Protection
۱۳۰M SYN cookies per second
TurboFlex Performance Profiles
Tier 3 (2x bandwidth)
Software Compression
N/A
Software Architecture
۶۴-bit
TMOS
On-Demand Upgradable
N/A
Virtualization (Maximum Number of vCMP Guests)
۳۲
Processor
One 18-Core Intel Xeon processor
(total 36 hyperthreaded logical processor cores)
Memory
۲۵۶GB DDR4
Hard Drive
۱x 960 GB Enterprise Class SSD
Throughput: Firewall (FW) + Application Visibility and Control (AVC) (1024B)
۲۵Gbps
Throughput: FW + AVC + Intrusion Prevention System (IPS (1024B)
۲۱Gbps
IPSec VPN throughput (1024B TCP w/Fastpath)
۱۴Gbps
۱۳.۵Gbps
AVC
Standard, supporting more than 4000 applications, as well as geolocations, users, and
websites
AVC: OpenAppID support for custom, open-source application detectors
Standard
Standard
Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks
Available; enables detection, blocking, tracking, analysis, and containment of targeted and
persistent malware, addressing the attack continuum both during and after attacks. Integrated
threat correlation with Cisco AMP for Endpoints is also optionally available
URL filtering: number of categories
More than 80
More than 80
URL filtering: number of URLs categorized
More than 280 million
More than 280 Million
Automated threat feed and IPS signature updates
Yes: class-leading Collective Security Intelligence (CSI) from the Cisco Talos® group
(https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/talos.html)
Third-party and opensource ecosystem
Open API for integrations with third-party products; Snort® and OpenAppID community
resources for new and specific threats