The Cisco ASA 5505 provides two Power over Ethernet (PoE) ports, enabling simpliﬁed deployment of Cisco IP phones with zero-touch secure voice over IP (VoIP) capabilities, and deployment of external wireless access points for extended network mobility. The Cisco ASA 5505 features a ﬂexible 8-port 10/100 Fast Ethernet switch, whose ports can be dynamically grouped to create up to three separate VLANs for home, business, and Internet traﬃc for improved network segmentation and security. Using the integrated Cisco ASDM, the Cisco ASA 5505 can be rapidly deployed and easily managed, enabling businesses to minimize operations costs. The Cisco ASA 5505 delivers high-performance ﬁrewall, SSL and IPsec VPN, and rich networking services in a modular, 'plug-and-play' appliance. As long as you are fine with its limited throughput it is a perfectly capable appliance.The Cisco ASA 5505 Adaptive Security Appliance ASA5505-BUN-K9 is a next-generation, full-featured security appliance for small business, branch oﬃce, and enterprise teleworker environments. Small investment and it can run the latest ASA software.

However, they don't address the SOHO or SMB markets much in their product line as it is more focused on the larger enterprises. Their FirePower and FireAmp products are very advanced and capable with respect to not only NGIPS but also NGFW features. One could guess that's why Cisco recently announced the agreement to acquire SourceFire, one of the market leaders in that space. IPS, even among Cisco high-powered IPS appliance doesn't fall in the magic quadrant as defiend by Gartner for NGIPS capabilities. It's also very popular among engineers who want a lab / home firewall to use in certification studies.

True it doesn't have many of the NGFW features but for the price it is a pretty capable little appliance. Jouni is correct that the 5505 is alone among the older ASA product line models in that it is NOT included in the End of Sales announcements to date.

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