Cisco PIX was a popular IP firewall and network address translation appliance.
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10 Facts About Cisco PIX
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In 2005, Cisco introduced the newer Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance, that inherited many of the PIX features, and in 2008 announced PIX end-of-sale.
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The Cisco PIX name is derived from its creators' aim of creating the functional equivalent of an IP PBX to solve the then-emerging registered IP address shortage.
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The Cisco PIX quickly became one of the leading enterprise firewall products and was awarded the Data Communications Magazine "Hot Product of the Year" award in January 1995.
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Shortly before Cisco PIX acquired Network Translation in November 1995, Mayes and Coile hired two longtime associates, Richard Howes and Pete Tenereillo, and shortly after acquisition 2 more longtime associates, Jim Jordan and Tom Bohannon.
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In May 2005, Cisco introduced the ASA which combines functionality from the PIX, VPN 3000 series and IPS product lines.
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Administrators can configure the Cisco PIX to perform many functions including network address translation and port address translation, as well as serving as a virtual private network endpoint appliance.
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Cisco PIX became the first commercially available firewall product to introduce protocol specific filtering with the introduction of the "fixup" command.
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Cisco PIX was one of the first commercially available security appliances to incorporate IPSec VPN gateway functionality.
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The latter is the part code for the Cisco PIX technology implemented in the Fire Wall Services Module, for the Catalyst 6500 and the 7600 Router.
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