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Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Cisco PIX 501 security appliance



The is a firewall thats easy to set up for home or small office. It has a four port fast Ethernet switch built in.

This firewall can provide up to 60Mbps data transfer or 3Mbps of encrypted traffic using (3DES) . This can be used for VPN's Virtual Private Networks.

It supports AES which is the Advanced Encrytion Standard at up to 4mbps.

Here is Cisco's overview of their product