: PA-5500 Series Firewall Overview
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PA-5500 Series Firewall Overview

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PA-5500 Series Firewall Overview

Get an overview of the PA-5500 Series Firewall.
The PA-5500 Series Next-Generation firewalls are high performance appliances designed for large enterprise environments, data centers, and internet gateway deployments. The following models make up the PA-5500 Series:
  • PA-5540
  • PA-5550
  • PA-5560
  • PA-5570
  • PA-5580
The PA-5500 Series firewalls provide flexibility in performance and redundancy to adapt to your deployment requirements. These models can use either AC or DC power and come with a 3.84TB RAID1 SSD pair. Dedicated computing and hardware resources ensure predictable performance in networking, security, signature matching, and management functions.
First Supported PAN-OSĀ® Software Release: PAN-OS 12.1.2
The following topics describe the hardware components of the PA-5500 Series firewalls: