New PA820 replacing PA500

[cdcirexx]

Hi all,

Just wanted to get some ideas on performance of the PA820, right now our PA500 is acting as a router/gateway to internal lan, and will be migrating to the pa820, so if I were to keep the settings, like just migrate over the configs, will the pa820 perform better as a router, cause currently some users are complaining of slow intervlan performance with the pa500, has anyone gone through a similar migration, thanks in advanced.

[BPry · Accepted solution]

@cdcirexx,

Massive improvements when using the PA-820 over the PA-500. Keep in mind that on the 500 if you had Threat Prevention enabled between intervlan traffic you were limited to 100Mbps of throughput; this goes all the way up to 610Mbps on the 820. Honestly I wouldn't have attempted your current configuration with a PA-500, the PA-820 would make this much more servicable and is actually advisable for smaller offices. 

Here's a really nice comparision between the two HERE

[cdcirexx]

Thanks for the reply Bpry, yeah that's what made management decide to go with pa820, after seeing the comparison when we were shopping around for a replacement firewall, we just basically didn't size up our firewall first hand, that's why the slow intervlan.  We are a somewhat small shop about 70 users, with a 50mb upload/download, so we got room to grow with the pa820.