Chapter 3FTD on the Firepower eXtensible Operating System (FXOS)

Within the ASA 5500-X Series models, the ASA 5585-X hardware is designed for a data center network. However, an ASA 5585-X device does not support the Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software. To meet the needs of a service provider network, Cisco introduced a new career-class Firepower hardware platform that runs FTD on top of a supervisor. The supervisor runs on an independent operating system called the Firepower eXtensible Operating System (FXOS). This chapter discusses the deployment of the FTD software on FXOS.

Firepower 9300 and 4100 Series Essentials

Cisco introduced the Firepower 9300 Series and the Firepower 4100 Series hardware models in 2015 and 2016, respectively. In ...

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