PIX-501-UL-BUN-K9 - Cisco PIX 500 Series Security Appliances

The Cisco PIX 501 Security Appliance delivers enterprise-class security for small offices and teleworkers in a reliable, plug-and-play purpose-built appliance. Ideal for securing high-speed "always on" broadband environments, the Cisco PIX 501 Security Appliance, which is part of the world-leading Cisco PIX Security Appliance Series, provides robust integrated security capabilities, small office networking features, and powerful remote management capabilities in a compact, all-in-one solution. The Cisco PIX 501 Security Appliance delivers a multilayered defense for small offices through rich security services including stateful inspection firewalling, protocol and application inspection, virtual private networking (VPN), in-line intrusion protection, and rich multimedia and voice security in a single device. The state-of-the-art Cisco Adaptive Security Algorithm (ASA) provides rich stateful inspection firewall services, tracking the state of all authorized network communications and preventing unauthorized network access. Small offices benefit from an additional layer of security via intelligent, "application-aware" security services that examine packet streams at Layers 4-7, using inspection engines specialized for many of today's popular applications. Administrators can also easily create custom security policies for firewall traffic by using the flexible access control methods and the more than 100 predefined applications, services, and protocols that Cisco PIX Security Appliances provide. Cisco PIX Security Appliances provide market-leading protection for a wide range of voice-over-IP (VoIP) and multimedia standards, allowing businesses to securely take advantage of the many benefits that converged data, voice, and video networks deliver. By combining VPN with the rich stateful inspection firewall services that Cisco PIX Security Appliances provide for these converged networking standards, businesses can securely extend voice and multimedia services to home offi