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Both PIX and ASA are Cisco Stateful firewalls with latter being the latest market entrant including increased feature support and performance.
Comparison Table: PIX vs ASA
Below table enlists the difference between both the PIX and ASA –
S No |
PIX |
ASA |
| 1 | Firewall appliance | Is firewall and anti-malware security appliance |
| 2 | Physical Appliance | Physical and Virtual Appliance |
| 3 | Provides Stateful packet filtering firewall. | Provides following feature support
·Firewall ·IPS ·Anti-X ·VPN |
| 4 | Use PIX Device Manager (PDM) for a graphical interface. | Use Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM) for a graphical interface. |
| 5 | Does not support WebVPN | Supports WebVPN |
| 6 | Does not support Transparent Firewall, Security Context and Modular Policy | Supporting Transparent Firewall, Security Context and Modular Policy |
| 7 | 16 MB Ram | 64 MB |
| 8 | Runs PIX OS | Runs Security appliance Code 7.0 and later |
| 9 | Lower in performance and throughput | Higher performance and throughput |
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