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juniper SRX Series SRX1500 vs paloalto PA Series PA-3050

Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Juniper SRX1500 is a high-performance 1U next-generation firewall engineered for distributed enterprise campus perimeters and small datacenter edges. The Palo Alto Networks PA-3050 is a 1.5U enterprise next-generation firewall delivering 4 Gbps of firewall throughput, 2 Gbps of threat prevention throughput, and 500 Mbps of IPsec VPN throughput.

juniper SRX Series SRX1500paloalto PA Series PA-3050
Brandjuniperpaloalto
Statuscurrentend-of-support
ReleasedNov 2015Apr 2012
Form factor1U rack1.5U rack
Ports16x 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45, 4x 10GbE SFP+, and 2x expansion slots—
Firewall throughput9 Gbps stateful firewall throughput4.0 Gbps App-ID firewall throughput
Vpn throughput4 Gbps IPsec VPN throughput—
Ips throughput3 Gbps intrusion prevention system (IPS) inspection rate—
Power suppliesDual redundant hot-swappable AC or DC power supplies—
Interfaces—8x 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 and 8x 1GbE SFP optical ports
Threat prevention—2.0 Gbps threat prevention throughput
Ipsec vpn—500 Mbps IPsec VPN throughput
Sessions—Supports up to 500,000 concurrent sessions and 50,000 new sessions per second

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