juniper SRX Series SRX1500 vs paloalto PA Series PA-3260
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-3260 is a 2U enterprise datacenter firewall delivering four 40GbE QSFP+ ports, four 10GbE SFP+ ports, and twelve Gigabit copper interfaces.
| juniper SRX Series SRX1500 | paloalto PA Series PA-3260 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | juniper | paloalto |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Nov 2015 | Feb 2018 |
| Form factor | 1U rack | 2U rack |
| Ports | 16x 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45, 4x 10GbE SFP+, and 2x expansion slots | — |
| Firewall throughput | 9 Gbps stateful firewall throughput | 9.5 Gbps App-ID firewall throughput |
| Vpn throughput | 4 Gbps IPsec VPN throughput | — |
| Ips throughput | 3 Gbps intrusion prevention system (IPS) inspection rate | — |
| Power supplies | Dual redundant hot-swappable AC or DC power supplies | — |
| Interfaces | — | 4x 40GbE QSFP+, 4x 10GbE SFP+, and 12x 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 ports |
| Threat prevention | — | 4.8 Gbps threat prevention throughput |
| Ipsec vpn | — | 4.2 Gbps IPsec VPN throughput |
| Concurrent sessions | — | Supports up to 3 million concurrent sessions and 160,000 new sessions per second |
| Power | — | Dual redundant hot-swappable AC or DC power supplies |
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