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Cisco Secure Firewall 4215
Cisco Secure Firewall 4215
★ 3.2 Value Score

Technical Specifications

  • Firewall Throughput: 90 Gbps stateful (Cisco 4200 datasheet; some regional Cisco pages list 71 Gbps)
  • Threat Prevention Throughput: 65 Gbps (FW + AVC / NGIPS, 1024B)
  • IPsec VPN Throughput: 45 Gbps (1024B TCP w/ Fastpath)
  • Max Sessions: 40M concurrent connections (Cisco datasheet; some resellers list 15M)
  • New Sessions/sec: 350K
  • Interfaces: 8x 1/10/25GbE SFP28 fixed (some listings say SFP+); 2x NetMod bays for expansion
  • Form Factor: 1RU rack-mountable

Curation Review

  • ✔ Pros: Up to 90 Gbps stateful firewall throughput in a 1RU chassis; 40M concurrent connections and 350K new connections/sec suit high-session data center and campus workloads; 2x NetMod bays allow port expansion; Supports up to 20,000 VPN peers; Runs Cisco FTD or ASA software for flexible deployment
  • ✘ Cons: Threat prevention throughput (65 Gbps) is well below the headline firewall figure; Reseller pricing is high, typically well over $100K, which puts it out of reach for small or branch deployments; Published specs and port types conflict across Cisco and third-party sources, which complicates sizing; Threat, malware, and URL protection require separate subscription licenses on top of the hardware cost
  • Est. Price: $114,567 - $152,065

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