FPR1000 The true ASA 5505 Replacement

[robinson]

Cisco has FINALLY heard us!  The purveyors and Champions of the Small to medium business markets, and produced the first match to the Cisco ASA5505.  First they gave us the 5506 and we were all upset about the fact that the ports were NOT switched. Well with this we can run ASA and FTD code, join it to FMC, and comming in 6.5 code we can get 650Mbps of IPS traffic throughput on this baby!  This fills a HUGE hole in the market.  I'm so happy to this this.  What are your thoughts???

[robinson]

Glenn, I know I was excited when I created this post, but that's all drained away.  Sadly you won't really be able to use your 5505 config on the 1000 because the 5505 code took advantage of the switching hardware of the 5505.  Cisco threw that in the trash, the only way to create a switch on the FPR platform is with bridge groups, which is a far cry from the ease the 5505 provided with it's built-in switching architecture.

[GlennJoseph]

Thank you. Cisco always creates some type of roadblock.