Using Cisco ASA Software Release 9.0 and beyond, customers can combine up to 16 Cisco ASA 5585-X firewall modules into a single cluster for a transfer rate of up to 640 Gbps, 2 million connections per second and over 100 million of competing connections.

The new generation Cisco ASA5500-X with Firepower Services offers superior scalability, performance and security to manage large volumes of data without sacrificing performance.

It significantly reduces initial purchase costs by 80%, energy costs by 85%, and rack space requirements by 88%. This in addition to significant reductions in global integration and complexity and management costs.

It responds to the growing needs of dynamic organizations, delivering eight times the performance density, very high VPN sessions, double the number of connections per second, and four times the connect  capacity of any competitive firewall.