Cisco Firepower 4100 Series Appliances

product introduction

The Cisco 4100 Series of PowerPower equipment includes seven new generation firewall (NGFW) models that provide the defense strength of large businesses with superior defense technologies. These devices offer exceptional performance despite the activation of advanced defense capabilities. This series of equipment has flow-offloading and programmatic orchestration capabilities and security services management using RESTful APIs. With the operational power that the models of this series offer, the equipment of this series can be used in small to medium businesses on the edge of the Internet or in the data center. The 4100 Series is capable of running Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) and Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software.

Product Specifications

Model	Firewall	NGFW	NGIPS	Interfaces	Optional Interfaces
FPR-4110	35G	11G	15G	8 x SFP+ on-chassis	2 x NM’s: 1/10/40G, FTW
FPR-4112(New)	40G	12.5G	15G	8 x SFP+ on-chassis	2 x NMs: 1/10/40G, FTW
FPR-4115	80G	26G	27G	8 x SFP+ on-chassis	2 x NMs: 1/10/40G, FTW
FPR-4120	60G	19G	27G	8 x SFP+ on-chassis	2 x NM’s: 1/10/40G, FTW
FPR-4125	80G	35G	41G	8 x SFP+ on-chassis	2 x NMs: 1/10/40G, FTW
FPR-4140	70G	27G	38G	8 x SFP+ on-chassis	2 x NM’s: 1/10/40G, FTW
FPR-4145	80G	45G	55G	8 x SFP+ on-chassis	2 x NMs: 1/10/40G, FTW
FPR-4150	75G	39G	52G	8 x SFP+ on-chassis	2 x NM’s: 1/10/40G, FTW

Equipment performance with FTD software

Features	4110	4112	4115	4120	4125	4140	4145	4150
Throughput: FW + AVC (1024B)	13 Gbps	14 Gbps	27 Gbps	22 Gbps	40 Gbps	32 Gbps	53 Gbps	45 Gbps
Throughput: FW + AVC + IPS (1024B)	11 Gbps	12.5 Gbps	26 Gbps	19 Gbps	35 Gbps	27 Gbps	45 Gbps	39 Gbps
Maximum concurrent sessions, with AVC	10 million	10 million	15 million	15 million	25 million	25 million	30 million	30 million
Maximum new connections per second, with AVC	64K	85K	200K	118K	265K	172K	350K	263K
TLS (Hardware Decryption)¹	4.5 Gbps	4.5 Gbps	6.5 Gbps	7.1 Gbps	8 Gbps	7.3 Gbps	10 Gbps	7.5 Gbps
Throughput: NGIPS (1024B)	15 Gbps	15 Gbps	27 Gbps	27 Gbps	41 Gbps	38 Gbps	55 Gbps	52 Gbps
IPSec VPN Throughput (1024B TCP w/Fastpath)	6 Gbps	6.5 Gbps	8 Gbps	10 Gbps	14 Gbps	13 Gbps	18 Gbps	14 Gbps
Maximum VPN Peers	10,000	10,000	15,000	20,000	20,000	20,000	20,000	20,000
Multi-Instance Capable	Yes
Centralized management	Centralized configuration, logging, monitoring, and reporting are performed by the Management Center or alternatively in the cloud with Cisco Defense Orchestrator
Application Visibility and Control (AVC)	Standard, supporting more than 4000 applications, as well as geolocations, users, and websites
AVC: OpenAppID support for custom, open source, application detectors	Standard
Cisco Security Intelligence	Standard, with IP, URL, and DNS threat intelligence
Cisco Firepower NGIPS	Available; can passively detect endpoints and infrastructure for threat correlation and Indicators of Compromise (IoC) intelligence
Cisco AMP for Networks	Available; enables detection, blocking, tracking, analysis, and containment of targeted and persistent malware, addressing the attack continuum both during and after attacks. Integrated threat correlation with Cisco AMP for Endpoints is also optionally available
Cisco AMP Threat Grid sandboxing	Available
URL Filtering: number of categories	More than 80
URL Filtering: number of URLs categorized	More than 280 million
Automated threat feed and IPS signature updates	Yes: class-leading Collective Security Intelligence (CSI) from the Cisco Talos Group (https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/talos.html)
Third-party and open-source ecosystem	Open API for integrations with third-party products; Snort^® and OpenAppID community resources for new and specific threats
High availability and clustering	Active/standby. Cisco Firepower 4100 Series allows clustering of up to 6 chassis
Cisco Trust Anchor Technologies	Firepower 4100 Series platforms include Trust Anchor Technologies for supply chain and software image assurance.

Equipment performance with ASA software

Features	4110	4112	4115	4120	4125	4140	4145	4150
Stateful inspection firewall throughput¹	35 Gbps	40 Gbps	80 Gbps	60 Gbps	80 Gbps	70 Gbps	80 Gbps	75 Gbps
Stateful inspection firewall throughput (multiprotocol)²	15 Gbps	30 Gbps	40 Gbps	30 Gbps	45 Gbps	40 Gbps	50 Gbps	50 Gbps
Concurrent firewall connections	10 million	10 million	15 million	15 million	25 million	25 million	40 million	35 million
Firewall latency (UDP 64B microseconds)	3.5	3.5	3.5	3.5	3.5	3.5	3.5	3.5
New connections per second	150,000	400,000	848K	250,000	1.1 million	350,000	1.5 million	800,000
IPsec VPN throughput (450B UDP L2L test)	8 Gbps	9 Gbps	15 Gbps	10 Gbps	19 Gbps	14 Gbps	23 Gbps	15 Gbps
Maximum VPN Peers	10,000	10,000	15,000	20,000	20,000	20,000	20,000	20,000
Security contexts (included; maximum)	10; 250	10; 250	10; 250	10; 250	10; 250	10; 250	10; 250	10; 250
High availability	Active/active and active/standby
Clustering	Up to 16 appliances
Scalability	VPN Load Balancing, Firewall Clustering.
Centralized management	Centralized configuration, logging, monitoring, and reporting are performed by Cisco Security Manager or alternatively in the cloud with Cisco Defense Orchestrator
Adaptive Security Device Manager	Web-based, local management for small-scale deployments

Cisco Firepower 4100 Series Appliances

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