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Cisco ASA 5505

Cisco ASA devices are security appliances which include the following features:

• Firewall
• IPsec VPN (Layer 3)
• SSL VPN (Layer 6)
• Intrusion Prevention System
• Content Security Inspection
• Voice & Video security services

Apart from described above, this kind of devices offer some services such as:

• Access Control: dynamic and granular
• Threat protection: DoS, protocol fuzzing…
• Policy enforcement: Whitelists, Blacklists, SIP policies...
• Service protection: ensure maximum uptime
• Voice & Video encryption
• Support for several Voice & Video protocols: SCCP, SIP, H.323, MGCP, RTP/RTCP, CTIQBE.
• Protection of call control servers: control access to the servers in order to prevent malicious or unauthorized network connections that could impact performance or availability.
• Remote-access security: SSL and IPsec VPN for remote users.
• SIP trunk security
• Trusted/Untrusted boundaries: prevent trusted devices from the impact of untrusted networks.
• Proxy service: can be used to proxy traffic between voice and data VLANs.
• DMZ architecture: secure an internal network against external access.

Cisco offers several versions of ASA 5505 series. The version which corresponds with part number 47-18790-05 refers to Firewall solution, version 11. This type of devices are able to protect all devices located behind them as well as they can be used to create VPN connections with other networks.

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