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Cisco SA500 Series Security Appliances Administration Guide 10
Getting Started
This chapter describes the SA500 and provides scenarios to help you to begin
configuring your security appliance to meet the needs of your business.
• Feature Overview
• Installation Options
• Hardware Installation
• Getting Started with the Configuration Utility
• About the Default Settings
• Basic Tasks
• Common Configuration Scenarios
Feature Overview
The features of the SA520, SA520W, and the SA540 are compared in the following
table.
Table 1 Comparison of SA500 Series Security Appliance Models
Feature SA520 SA520W SA540
Firewall
Performance
200 Mbps 200 Mbps 300 Mbps
UTM 200 Mbps 200 Mbps 300 Mbps
VPN
Performance
65 Mbps 65 Mbps 85 Mbps
Connections 15,000 15,000 40,000