That is not the response I expected. The NSA devices are pretty robust
and could handle anything we have here. I have not seen an ASA quote
yet, so I will have to wait for that.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Klint Price <[email protected]> wrote:
> I concur with what both Bill and Jon have said.  In addition, if you are a 
> smaller company, or have a smaller budget, I would consider purchasing from a 
> grey-market retailer like Network Hardware (you can have Smartnet added to 
> your order).
>
> Klint
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:10 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Abandoning Cisco
>
> Expensive?????  Our Pix cost over $8000 in 2001, we bought *2* ASA's to
> replace it and still paid less than that in 2007.  There are some
> differents in the OS between the Pix and ASA, but they are very similar.
> If you can manage a Pix, you can manage an ASA--at least in my
> experience.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mqcarp [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 4:58 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Abandoning Cisco
>
> Has anyone else looked at abandoning Cisco for their firewall? We have
> PIXs and they are trying to get us to move to ASA now that they are
> phasing out. The ASA is very expensive and from what I hear, very
> complicated to manage.
>
> We are a medium sized business and do not need this IMHO.
>
> Has anyone else left Cisco in this role for products like Sonicwall?
>
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