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: Firewall (FW) + Application Visibility and Control (AVC)(1024B)
۷۰ Gbps
۵۰Gbps
Throughput: FW + AVC + Intrusion Prevention System (IPS (1024B)
۶۴ Gbps
۴۳Gbps
Maximum concurrent sessions, with AVC
۳۵ million
۳۰million
Maximum new connections per second, with AVC
۴۹۰K
۲۹۵K
TLS (Hardware Decryption)
۱۲ Gbps
۱۰Gbps
Throughput: NGIPS (1024B)
۷۳ Gbps
۵۷Gbps
IPSec VPN throughput (1024B TCP w/Fastpath)
۲۷ Gbps
۱۷Gbps
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
Stateful inspection firewall throughput
۸۰ Gbps
۸۰Gbps
Stateful inspection firewall throughput (multiprotocol)
۶۴ Gbps
۶۰Gbps
Concurrent firewall connections
۶۰ million
۶۰million
Firewall latency (UDP 64B microseconds)
۳.۵
۳.۵
New connections persecond
۲ million
۱.۸million
IPsec VPN throughput (450B UDP L2L test)
۳۰ Gbps
۲۰Gbps
MaximumVPN Peers
۲۰,۰۰۰
۲۰,۰۰۰
Security contexts (included; maximum)
۱۰; ۲۵۰
۱۰; ۲۵۰
High availability
Active/active and active/standby
Clustering
Up to 16 security modules across up to 16 different Firepower 9300 chassis
Up to 16 security modules across up to 16 different Firepower 9300 chassis
Scalability
VPN load balancing, firewall clustering
VPN load balancing, firewall clustering
Adaptive Security Device Manager
Web-based, local management for small-scale deployments
Web-based, local management for small-scale deployments
AVC
Standard, supporting more than 4000 applications, as well as geolocations, users, and websites
AVC: OpenAppID support for custom, open-source application detectors
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
Intelligent Traffic Processing
L7 requests per second: 10M
L4 connections per second: 4.2M
L4 HTTP requests per second: 35M
Maximum L4 concurrent connections: 300M
Throughput: 320 Gbps/160 Gbps L4/L7
Hardware Offload SSL/TLS
ECC†: ۱۰۰K TPS (ECDSA P-256)
RSA: 160K TPS (2K keys)
۵۰ Gbps bulk encryption
FIPS SSL
N/A
Hardware Compression
۶۰Gbps
Hardware DDoS Protection
۲۱۰M SYN cookies per second
TurboFlex Performance Profiles
Tier 3 (4x BW)
Software Compression
N/A
Software Architecture
۶۴-bit
TMOS
On-Demand Upgradable
N/A
Virtualization (Maximum Number of vCMP Guests)
۵۶
Processor
Two 14-Core Intel Xeon processors
(total 56 hyperthreaded logical processor cores)
Memory
۵۱۲GB DDR4
Hard Drive
۱x 1.6TB Enterprise Class SSD
Centralized management
Centralized configuration, logging, monitoring, and reporting are performed by Cisco Security Manager or alternatively in the cloud with Cisco Defense Orchestrator