This is the future of Cisco firewall world :)
- unified soft with ASA and FirePower functions (NGFW, NGIPS, AMP, URL filtering, SSL decryption),
- IPS base Snort signatures,
- managed by Firepower Management Center or FTD manager via www,
- works on Vmware/KVM, appliances Firepower 2100/4100/9000 and ASA-x (except 5585-x), ISR G2/4k routers with ucs-e module (only FirePower), AWS cloud
- run with ASA or FTD softwwre (no firepower),
- firewall throughput 20 to 225 Gb/s,
- release 6.0 to 6.2 (6.0/6.1 on ccie security v5 lab),