NGIPS is scalable. It has well-defined stacks for how much traffic it can handle. You can fully inspect traffic or use SSL decryption.

It's not scalable on a single device. If you need to scale up, you have to buy another one.

For any of these devices, this is the irritating part. A customer comes to me and says, "I need a gig of internet access at a location." If I see a Firepower that handles up to a gig, I'm not buying it because I can't scale. If the customer comes back to me six months later and says, "We're packing that gig, and I need two gigs," then he's going to get angry at me for undersizing his firewall, so I need to go to a four gig model. 

The tool's scalability is not an issue. We have a lot of people using the product even in our subsidiaries. We have a couple of thousand users for the solution.

It is a scalable solution. We have over 100 clients.

It's scalable. You can add more to it as traffic requires, one cluster can do HA, so it's pretty scalable. In fact, you can cluster up to six chassis on the 4100.

If it's host-based IPS, we can count a number of users and say we have 45,0000 users but for network-based IPS, where it's just picking traffic from different connections when you're trying to go to the internet or when you're trying to come back to the internet it can support up to 10 million concurrent sessions. We have around 200,000 users but it can support 10 million concurrent sessions.

For maintenance, once you configure it, depending on what you call maintenance if it's software upgrade it doesn't take a lot to upgrade it. If it's active/standby you can upgrade the active. The standby becomes the active. Then when the active comes back on, you can upgrade the standby. So usually, at least you have an active/standby scenario, but if you have a cluster, you can take each out of production in codes. We start while others are in production. 

If you're talking about maintenance in terms of log collections and shipping of the logs, it's also easy to deploy from that perspective.

Cisco NGIPS is not that easy to scale, in my opinion. However, it can be upgraded, depending on the design. When you propose a design to customers, you have to check their expansion capability in terms of various factors such as how much time and how much employees would have to be involved.

When it comes to the VM products, some of them might not be scalable unless you upgrade your product to the latest version, in which case you have to upgrade the versions one by one. For example, your current version might 5.1 and you are aiming to upgrade to version 10.1. In this case, you would have to upgrade each intermediate version until you reach 10.1.

The scalability of Cisco NGIPS is good.

The tool is scalable. My company has over 2000  users for the product. 

This is a very scalable product. You can add multiple devices to the same policy and then push that out.

In the cloud space, scaling is done automatically based on the amount of traffic and the amount of bandwidth that's generated. It scales up and down, back and forth, as needed. For example, if there is not much traffic then it drops, whereas if there is a lot of traffic then it creates another FTD, and then it just shares the load with load balancing.

Everything is scaled properly both in the cloud and on-premises.

This solution is not easily scaled. I would like Cisco NGIPS to be easier to scale. With the increase in work from home, we needed to add another layer of security to ensure we can meet the demand of stability, high availability, and connection.

The scalability is excellent, they can support a large environment. However, a large size organization will need its own dedicated appliance.

We have around four thousand users and that would be an example of its scalability.

It is scalable. NGIPS is based on our user base, so we have around 2000 users. We require two network and security administrators for deployment and maintenance. We do not plan to increase usage because we have already upgraded.

Regarding scalability, the solution is not that good.

The scalability of Cisco NGIPS I am not too familiar with. The solution can do clustering and other operations. With the Orchestrator, I haven't worked with it yet but I hope that will help to make standard policies all run better. The most important part about scalability is how do you want to apply the same policy all around and across the different locations that you have. This is something that is not easy with any firewall unless you have a Secure Orchestrator. I don't see any issues with the scalability at this time.

Cisco NGIPS is highly scalable. We use it to cover 15 offices.

At this point in time, it's making it a little bit difficult to scale due to the company, as the vendor is making some changes. We are waiting to see if the product is scalable or not. 

Cisco NGIPS is scalable. However, the cost to the customer is always high, because it's still a hardware base. After the resource cycle of three or five years, you have to replace them. From that perspective, they are not the greatest solution out there.

Our networking team of approximately 50 people that are mostly using this solution in my organization.

The scalability offered by the product is fine. My company has not faced any problems with the scalability feature. The solution is deployed in three of our company's data centers.

I can't really speak to the scalability of the solution as I haven't used it for long enough.

Due to the fact that all the traffic passes through the firewalls, I would say 500 people or maybe more use the solution in our organization.

It is very scalable. In terms of the number of users, we have 26,000 students and 3,500 staff members. Everybody in our organization goes through it and takes advantage of it on our system. We have about five people who are managing it, and they are from the network group, infrastructure group, and storage group.

The solution is scalable. It integrates with different XDR solutions. Thus, we can manage all the devices on a single pane. It is suitable for SMEs and large enterprises as well.

I rate its scalability an eight out of ten.

It's working correctly, it's working without problems. You can buy another Firepower, and you can do a cluster configuration. And it's really easy, we don't have any problems.

Scalability I would say, it has some limitations in the large deployment. I think Cisco is working to improve it.

This solution is very easy to scale, depending on your organization's roadmap. I have had customers that are using it and scaling very fast, especially in the financial sector.

Being a clustered solution, you can have 500, 1,000, or 10,000 users. In fact, one of my customers has 20,000 users of NGIPS. I have another organization that has 1,200 users. The size of the solution is set based on the number of users.

I think scalability is good although we only have a couple of people in our company that use it - the IT Manager and myself.  

When it comes to scalability, there is a limitation that is set by the hardware. If you're looking for higher throughput then you have to change boxes. The 2000 series is pretty small when it comes to bandwidth, so scalability is a concern.

The scalability of Cisco NGIPS is good.

We have approximately 100 people using this solution in my company.

The scalability is fine. I believe it covers the expectations that we have.

We believe this to be a scalable solution.

It is scalable.

Cisco takes scalability into consideration. My clients vary in size from small and medium-sized businesses to enterprises.

The system is a bit rigid. We have more than 1,000 people using the solution.

The scalability is excellent. We have around one thousand two hundred users.

This is a scalable product.

The scalability is fine for us, we currently have 50 users. 

Cisco NGIPS is scalable and we have about 600 users.

The scalability on the solution is good overall. They have a central management console that can assist with the process. The only issue there is we feel like there's room for improvement on the administration side of things.

When it comes to a user installing the networks, all the users essentially traverse this firewall, but when it comes to the administrators of the product, we've got five administrators in networking, they pretty much use it on a daily basis.

The solution is very scalable, but the main issue surrounds the cost to do so. Scaling can be very expensive. Our network isn't too big. We have around 60 users.

Cisco NGIPS is scalable. The scalability is easy to do because if the Firepower threat defense works in the cluster mode, someone can scale up the system using two and three Firepower threat defenses at the same time in one system.

We use this solution in different companies and provide them with support. We have some clients that have 3,000 users whereas others have 700.

The solution is scalable. The management center, which controls the sensors, you can deploy it. You have two different virtual appliances, one is for managing up to 25 sensors and the bigger one is up to 300 sensors. The hardware list of the products ranges from, I think, 20 sensors and up to 500. Depending on your needs, you can scale it.

We have three administrators working on the solution and the whole organization is being protected by it.

This is suitable for organizations of all sizes; small, medium, and large-sized companies. For example, one of our clients has 600 users.

The ease of scaling depends on the number of times you scale, or to which extent. I can start by saying that scaling is easy but if you want to scale a hundredfold, then it's not going to be so easy. It's impossible.

This product is very scalable. 

The solution is good to scale.

I find the solution really scalable.

Cisco has some limitations in clustering if we want to upgrade the hardware currently deployed at customer sites. If Cisco can improve or optimize this clustering limitation, this will add more scalability to Firepower.

It is no longer scalable because it has gone end of life.

We have approximately six locations. We have close to 2,000 users.

The scalability is excellent.

We have around 2,000 users in our organization using the solution.

I suppose the scalability is fine.