Cisco Secure PIX Firewall

Cisco Secure PIX Firewall 535
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Cisco Secure PIX Firewall 535
An ­amazing piece of technology, the PIX (private Internet exchange) firewall combines dynamic network address translation, proxy server, packet filtration, firewall and VPN capabilities in a single piece of hardware.

Instead of using Cisco IOS, this device has a highly streamlined OS that trades the ability to handle a variety of protocols for extreme robustness and performance by focusing on IP.