The Cisco ASA 5505-SEC-K9 Security Appliance provides small and medium-sized companies with gateway security and virtual private network (VPN) connectivity.

The ASA 5505 includes an 8-port Fast Ethernet switch, stateful firewall, 25 IPsec VPN peers, 2 SSL VPN peers, Triple Data Encryption Standard Virtual Private Network/Advanced Encryption Standard (3DES/AES) license, 1 expansion slot, and an unlimited user license. It delivers up to 150 Mbps of firewall throughput and 100 Mbps of VPN throughput.

This product includes the Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM), a browser-based management and monitoring interface. This single solution provides comprehensive configuration and monitoring of all the services in a single application and provides wizards to guide administrators through initial and ongoing configuration tasks.

For VPN connections, Cisco Easy VPN Server and Cisco Easy VPN Remote simplify remote configuration and management.

Product service and support: Cisco will provide five years of hardware and software service and support (SMARTnet) for any product obtained through this donation program (Linksys products not included).