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:

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. Dedicated computing and hardware resources ensure predictable performance in networking, security, signature matching, and management functions. These firewalls also feature a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 for PAN-OS key storage and security.

The following topics describe the hardware components of the PA-5500 Series firewalls: