Paloalto Network PA-500 Series


The Palo Alto Networks PA-500 is ideally suited for Internet gateway deployments within medium to large branch offices and medium sized enterprises. The PA-500 manages network traffic flows with high performance processing and dedicated memory for networking, security, threat prevention and management. A high speed backplane smoothes the pathway between processors and the separation of data and control plane ensures that management access is always available, irrespective of the traffic load.




  • 250 Mbps firewall throughput
  • 100 Mbps threat prevention throughput
  • 50 Mbps IPSec VPN throughput
  • 250 IPSec VPN tunnels and tunnel interfaces
  • 7,500 new sessions per second
  • 64,000 max sessions
  • (8) 10/100/1000
  • (1) 10/100/1000 out of band management interface
  • (1) 1 RJ-45 console interface