Cisco Firepower 4100 Series Overview

The Firepower 4100 is one of the Cisco’s two high-end next generation firewalls.

Cisco Firepower 4100 Series Appliances

The Cisco Firepower 4100 Series is a family of four threat-focused NGFW security platforms. Their throughput ranges from 35 to 75 Gbps, addressing data center use cases. They deliver superior threat defense, at faster speeds, with a smaller footprint.

1. Applications: ASA, Firepower Threat Defense
2. Decorations: For 4120, 4140 and 4150-Radware DefensePro DDoS Mitigation

In the front there are two network module bays and two SSD bays. Only one SSD bay is used by default. Six hot-swappable fans and two power supplies in the back.

Supervisor

• 8x 10GE SFP+ ports
• Management processor: Gladden 2.0GHz (Pentium B925C 2 physical cores/4 logical cores)
• Management memory: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz RDIMM
• Management SSD: Unknown
• Backplane: Broadcom StrataXGS Trident II
• Backplane model: BCM56854A0IFSBG 720Gbit/s

Firepower 4110

• 12 physical cores (24 logical cores) Single 12 core Xeon E5-2658v3 2.2GHz (2.9GHz turbo)
• 64GB DDR4 2133MHz RAM
• One disk 200GB SSD storage + one optional for AMP
• One Smart NIC-Cruz custom Cisco ASIC
• One Crypto Accelerator-Cavium Nitrox V XL NHB PCIe Gen3 x16 (CNN55XX-NHB)

Firepower 4120

• 24 physical cores (48 logical cores) Dual 12 core Xeon E5-2658v3 2.2GHz (2.9GHz turbo)
• 128GB DDR4 2133MHz RAM
• One disk 200GB SSD storage + one optional for AMP
• Two Smart NIC-Cruz custom Cisco ASIC
• Two Crypto Accelerator-Cavium Nitrox V XL NHB PCIe Gen3 x16 (CNN55XX-NHB)

Firepower 4140

• 36 physical cores (72 logical cores) Dual 18 core Xeon E5-2699v3 2.3GHz (3.6GHz turbo)
• 256GB DDR4 2133MHz RAM
• One disk 400GB SSD storage + one optional for AMP
• Two Smart NIC-Cruz custom Cisco ASIC
• Two Crypto Accelerator-Cavium Nitrox V XL NHB PCIe Gen3 x16 (CNN55XX-NHB)

Firepower 4150

• 44 physical cores (88 logical cores) Dual 22 core Xeon E5-2699v4 2.2GHz (3.6GHz turbo)
• 256GB DDR4 2400MHz RAM
• One disk 400GB SSD storage + one optional for AMP
• Two Smart NIC-Cruz custom Cisco ASIC
• Two Crypto Accelerator-Cavium Nitrox V XL NHB PCIe Gen3 x16 (CNN55XX-NHB)

The 4100 Series’ 1-rack-unit size is ideal at the Internet edge and in high-performance environments. It shows you what’s happening on your network, detects attacks earlier so you can act faster, and reduces management complexity.

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