juniper SRX Series SRX4200 vs paloalto PA Series PA-5420
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Juniper SRX4200 is a 1U datacenter next-generation firewall engineered for high-throughput enterprise cores and service provider edges. The Palo Alto Networks PA-5420 is a 2U enterprise datacenter firewall delivering 75 Gbps of firewall throughput, 40 Gbps of threat prevention throughput, and 33 Gbps of IPsec VPN throughput.
| juniper SRX Series SRX4200 | paloalto PA Series PA-5420 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | juniper | paloalto |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jun 2016 | Nov 2021 |
| Form factor | 1U rack | 2U rack |
| Ports | 8x fixed 10GbE SFP/SFP+ optical ports | — |
| Firewall throughput | 80 Gbps stateful firewall throughput | 75.0 Gbps App-ID firewall throughput |
| Vpn throughput | 20 Gbps IPsec VPN throughput | — |
| Ngfw throughput | 20 Gbps application inspection and IPS throughput | — |
| Concurrent sessions | Supports up to 10 million concurrent firewall sessions | Supports up to 10 million concurrent sessions and 390,000 new sessions per second |
| Interfaces | — | 4x 40G/100G QSFP28, 16x 10G/25G SFP28, and 2x Gigabit copper management ports |
| Threat prevention | — | 40.0 Gbps threat prevention throughput |
| Ipsec vpn | — | 33.0 Gbps IPsec VPN throughput |
| Cooling and power | — | Dual hot-swappable AC or DC power supplies and field-replaceable fan trays |
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