In theory your only concern should be if the specifications of the service meet your needs and possibly the upgrade scenario if/when your needs change significantly.

As long as they pay for the service Cisco will provide support until 2018, so not much to worry about yet. I can appreciate their business case to have standardised on a single or very limited number of products.Īgain your SLA should have some indication on life-cycle management and otherwise simply ask the provider. The Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5505, 5510, 5520, 5540, and 5550 firewalls are reaching Rackspace end of life (EOL) on September 1, 2019. You maybe a new user of the service, but the service provider probably is an existing user of the product and fully covered. Any information why Cisco ASA 5505 have no any support for the latest.

Thoes are the main requierments but also we need the newr and not end-of-life and. What i need is a ASA with VPN speed of 40mbps minimumn. The risks you're taking should covered by the service level agreement you have with that major cloud server company.Īre you getting 'a managed firewall' with certain capabilities, where a model is an indication of those capabilities and depending on the SLA the service provider is responsible for the configuration, maintenance and life cycle management? Or are you just renting a piece of kit where nearly all operational responsibility is yours?Īfter your comment that you're getting a managed firewall service:Īt this stage of the product life cycle new units are no longer sold, but the product is still supported by Cisco for existing users. End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance. Is the 'ASA 5000' series is end of life and the new one is '5500 - X' are the new ones I need more detailes, we are willing to buy some of them ( 40 - 50 ) but i need to make sure we are on the right path.

Cisco asa 5505 end of life