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Do I need to have Cisco ASA 5500 SSL/IPsec VPN Edition in order to have a secured and encrypted VPN?
Can I do that with a Cisco PIX 501 instead?
What is the different between these 2 Ciscso appliance?
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by hal 9000 Accepted solution
Both will offer a secure Encrypted VPN although the ASA 5500 has the better functionality you may not need it it in your particular application.
The full data sheets are here for you to decide ion what it is you really want to do.
ASA 5500
PIX 501
While both are good you will need to look at your individual requirement's and budget to make your decision.
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by asad.khalil Accepted solution
Well, you can configure SSL/IPSec using PIX as well, as u might know the major difference between the two tunneling technologies. ASA5505 without any card installed(that adds more feature/flavour in the device)can work simply as PIX.
But if you desire to add flavours(like Anti-X, AntiSpam, Antivirus)in your security device for further enhancements and future expandability you can use the ASA as it is a new product as far as Cisco is concerned.
by zahidedue Accepted solution
If you don't have cost problem that i recommand you to go for Cisco ASA 5500 ,
ASA 5500 offer more features as compear to Cisco PIX.
by mbeck Accepted solution
The ASA has better vpn accelerator card ,and the pix was not built for VPN even thought it has the capability. The ASA has a more robust IDS piece as well .
ASA for more than ten people, but the price does jump as is everything Cisco sells.
The ASA is a combination of the 3030 vpn concentrator and the old pix 515 built into one device.
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