SRX1500 Firewall Datasheet
Next-Generation Firewall for the Distributed Enterprise
Product Overview
The SRX1500 is a next-generation firewall and security services gateway offering outstanding protection, performance, scalability, availability, and security service integration. Designed for port density, a high-performance security services architecture, and seamless integration of networking and security in a single platform, the SRX1500 is best suited for client protection in enterprise campus, regional headquarters, or cloud-based security solutions with a focus on application visibility and control, intrusion prevention, and advanced threat protection. The SRX1500 is powered by Junos OS, the industry-leading operating system that keeps the world’s largest and most mission-critical enterprise networks secure.

Product Description
The Juniper Networks® SRX1500 is a high-peformance next-generation firewall and security services gateway that protects mission-critical networks at campuses and regional headquarters. The SRX1500 provides best-in-class security and threat detection and mitigation capabilities, integrating carrier-class routing and feature-rich switching in a single platform.
The SRX1500 delivers a next-generation security solution that supports the changing needs of cloud-enabled enterprise networks. Whether rolling out new services in an enterprise campus, connecting to the cloud, complying with industry standards, or achieving operational efficiency, the SRX1500 helps organizations realize their business objectives while providing scalable, easy-to-manage, secure connectivity and advanced threat detection and mitigation capabilities. The SRX1500 protects critical corporate assets as a next-generation firewall, acts as an enforcement point for cloud-based security solutions, and provides application visibility and control to improve the user and application experience.
A combination of hardware and software architectures on the SRX1500 add significant performance improvements to a small 1 U form factor. The key to the SRX1500 hardware is the security flow accelerator, a programmable high-speed Layer 4 firewall chip, and a robust x86-based security compute engine for advanced security services like application visibility, intrusion prevention, and threat mitigation capabilities. The SRX1500 software architecture leverages these programmable hardware components and virtualization to deliver high-speed firewall performance, application visibility, and intrusion prevention while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).
The SRX1500 is purpose-built to protect 10GbE network environments, consolidating multiple security services and networking functions in a highly available appliance. It supports up to 9.2 Gbps of firewall performance, 3.3 Gbps of intrusion prevention, and 4.5 Gbps of IPsec VPN in enterprise campus, regional headquarters, and data center deployments.
SRX1500 Highlights
The SRX1500 delivers a full complement of next-generation firewall capabilities that use advanced application identification and classification to enable greater visibility, enforcement, control, and protection over the network. It provides a detailed analysis of application volume and usage, fine-grained application control policies to allow or deny traffic based on dynamic application name or group names, and prioritization of traffic based on application information and context.
The SRX1500 recognizes more than 4,275 applications and nested applications in plain-text or SSL encrypted transactions. The SRX1500 also integrates with Microsoft Active Directory and combines user information with application data to provide network-wide application and user visibility and control.
For the perimeter, the SRX1500 Firewall offers a comprehensive suite of application security services, threat defenses, and intelligence services to protect networks from the latest content-borne threats. Integrated threat intelligence via Juniper Networks ATP Cloud offers adaptive threat protection against command and control (C&C)-related botnets and policy enforcement based on GeoIP. Integrating the Juniper Networks Advanced Threat Prevention Cloud solution, or working with the Juniper Networks ATP Appliance, the SRX1500 detects and enforces automated protection against known malware and zero-day threats with an extremely high degree of accuracy.
The SRX1500 enables agile SecOps through automation capabilities that support Zero Touch Deployment, Python scripts for orchestration, and event scripting for operational management.
The SRX1500 delivers fully automated SD-WAN to both enterprises and service providers. A Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) capability simplifies branch network connectivity for initial deployment and ongoing management. Due to its high performance and scale, the SRX1500 acts as a VPN hub and terminates VPN/secure overlay connections in the various SD-WAN topologies.
The SRX1500 Firewall runs Juniper Networks Junos® operating system, a proven, carrier-hardened network OS that powers the top 100 service provider networks worldwide. These rigorously tested carrier-class routing features of IPv4/IPv6, OSPF, BGP, and multicast have been proven in over 15 years of worldwide deployments.
Features and Benefits
Business Requirement | Feature/Solution | SRX1500 Advantages |
High performance | Up to 9 Gbps of firewall performance |
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High quality end-user experience | Application visibility and control |
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Threat protection | IPS, antivirus, anti-spam, enhanced web filtering, Juniper Advanced Threat Prevention Cloud, Encrypted Traffic Insights, Threat Intelligence Feeds, and Juniper ATP Appliance |
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Professional-grade networking services | Routing, switching, and secure wire |
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Highly secure | IPsec VPN, remote access/SSL VPN, secure boot |
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High reliability | Chassis cluster, redundant power supply |
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Easy to manage and scale | On-box GUI, Security Director |
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Lower TCO | Junos OS |
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SRX1500 Firewall Specifications
Software Specifications
Firewall Services
- Stateful and stateless firewall
- Zone-based firewall
- Screens and distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection
- Protection from protocol and traffic anomalies
- Integration with Pulse Unified Access Control (UAC)
- Integration with Aruba Clear Pass Policy Manager
- User role-based firewall
- SSL Inspection
Network Address Translation (NAT)
- Source NAT with Port Address Translation (PAT)
- Bidirectional 1:1 static NAT
- Destination NAT with PAT
- Persistent NAT
- IPv6 address translation
VPN Features
- Tunnels: Site-to-Site, Hub and Spoke, Dynamic Endpoint, AutoVPN, ADVPN, Group VPN (IPv4/IPv6/Dual Stack)
- Juniper Secure Connect: Remote access/SSL VPN
- Configuration payload: Yes
- IKE Encryption algorithms: Prime, DES-CBC, 3DES-CBC, AEC-CBC, AES-GCM, SuiteB
- IKE authentication algorithms: MD5, SHA-1, SHA-128, SHA-256, SHA-384
- Authentication: Pre-shared key and public key infrastructure (PKI) (X.509)
- IPsec (Internet Protocol Security): Authentication Header (AH)/Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) protocol
- IPsec Authentication Algorithms: hmac-md5, hmac-sha-196
- IPsec Encryption Algorithms: Prime, DES-CBC, 3DES-CBC, AEC-CBC, AES-GCM, SuiteB
- Perfect forward secrecy, anti-reply
- Internet Key Exchange: IKEv1, IKEv2
- Monitoring: Standard-based dead peer detection (DPD) support, VPN monitoring
- VPNs GRE, IP-in-IP, and MPLS
High Availability Features
- Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
- Stateful high availability
- Dual box clustering
- Active/passive
- Active/active
- Configuration synchronization
- Firewall session synchronization
- Device/link detection
- In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU)
- IP monitoring with route and interface failover
Application Security Services1
- Application visibility and control
- Application-based firewall
- Application QoS
- Advanced/application policy-based routing (APBR)
- Application Quality of Experience (AppQoE)
- Application-based multipath routing
Threat Defense and Intelligence Services1
- Intrusion prevention
- Antivirus
- Antispam
- Category/reputation-based URL filtering
- Protection from botnets (command and control)
- Adaptive enforcement based on GeoIP
- Juniper Advanced Threat Prevention, a cloud-based SaaS offering, to detect and block zero-day attacks
- Juniper ATP Appliance, a distributed, on-premises advanced threat prevention solution to detect and block zero-day attacks
- Adaptive Threat Profiling
- Encrypted Traffic Insights
- SecIntel to provide threat intelligence
Routing Protocols
- IPv4, IPv6
- Static routes
- RIP v1/v2
- OSPF/OSPF v3
- BGP with Route Reflector
- IS-IS
- Multicast: Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) v1/v2; Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) sparse mode (SM)/dense mode (DM)/source-specific multicast (SSM); Session Description Protocol (SDP); Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP); Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP); Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF)
- Encapsulation: VLAN, Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE)
- Virtual routers
- Policy-based routing, source-based routing
- Equal-cost multipath (ECMP)
QoS Features
- Support for 802.1p, DiffServ code point (DSCP), EXP
- Classification based on VLAN, data-link connection identifier (DLCI), interface, bundles, or multifield filters
- Marking, policing, and shaping
- Classification and scheduling
- Weighted random early detection (WRED)
- Guaranteed and maximum bandwidth
- Ingress traffic policing
- Virtual channels
- Hierarchical shaping and policing
Switching Features
- ASIC-based Layer 2 forwarding
- MAC address learning
- VLAN addressing and integrated routing and bridging (IRB) support
- Link aggregation and LACP
- LLDP and LLDP-MED
- STP, RSTP, MSTP
- MVRP
- 802.1X authentication
Network Services
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) client/server/relay
- Domain Name System (DNS) proxy, dynamic DNS (DDNS)
- Juniper real-time performance monitoring (RPM) and IP monitoring
- Juniper flow monitoring (J-Flow)
- Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
- Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol (TWAMP)
- IEEE 802.3ah Link Fault Management (LFM)
- IEEE 802.1ag Connectivity Fault Management (CFM)
Advanced Routing Services
- Packet mode
- MPLS (RSVP, LDP)
- Circuit cross-connect (CCC), translational cross-connect (TCC)
- L2/L2 MPLS VPN, pseudo-wires
- Virtual private LAN service (VPLS), next-generation multicast VPN (NG-MVPN)
- MPLS traffic engineering and MPLS fast reroute
Management, Automation, Logging, and Reporting
- SSH, Telnet, SNMP
- Smart image download
- Juniper CLI and Web UI
- Juniper Networks Junos Space and Security Director
- Python
- Junos OS event, commit and OP scripts
- Application and bandwidth usage reporting
- Auto installation
- Debug and troubleshooting tools
Hardware Specifications
2Performance numbers based on UDP packets and RFC2544 test methodology. | |
3Performance numbers based on HTTP traffic with 44 KB transaction size. | |
4Next-Generation firewall performance is measured with Firewall, Application Security and IPS enabled using 64KB transactions | |
5Secure Web Access firewall performance is measured with Firewall, Application Security, IPS, SecIntel, and URL Filtering enabled using 64KB transactions | |
Specification | SRX1500 |
Connectivity | |
Total onboard ports | 16x1GbE and 4x10GbE |
Onboard RJ-45 ports | 12x1GbE |
Onboard small form-factor pluggable (SFP) transceiver ports | 4x1GbE |
Onboard SFP+ ports | 4x10GbE |
Out-of-Band (OOB) management ports | 1x1GbE |
Dedicated high availability (HA) ports | 1x1GbE (SFP) |
PIM slots | 2 |
Console (RJ-45 + miniUSB) | 1 |
USB 2.0 ports (type A) | 1 |
Memory and Storage | |
System memory (RAM) | 16 GB |
Primary boot storage (mSATA) | 16 GB |
Secondary storage (SSD) | 100 GB |
Dimensions and Power | |
Form factor | 1 U |
Size (WxHxD) | 17.28 x 1.75 x 18.2 in (43.9 x 4.44 x 46.22 cm) |
Weight (device and PSU) | 16.1 lb (7.30 kg) |
Redundant PSU | 1+1 |
Power supply | AC/DC (external) |
Average power consumption | 150 W |
Average heat dissipation | 512 BTU / hour |
Maximum current consumption | 2.5A (for AC PSU); 6.2A (for DC PSU) |
Maximum inrush current | 50A by 1 AC cycle |
Acoustic noise level | 66.5dBA |
Airflow/cooling | Front to back |
Operating temperature | 32° to 104° F (0° to 40° C) |
Nonoperating temperature | 4° to 158° F (-20° to 70° C) |
Operating humidity | 10% to 90% noncondensing |
Nonoperating humidity | 5% to 95% noncondensing |
Meantime between failures (MTBF) | 9.78 years (85,787 hours) |
FCC classification | Class A |
RoHS compliance | RoHS 2 |
FIPS 140-2 | Level 2 (Junos 19.2) |
Performance and Scale | |
Routing/firewall (IMIX packet size) Gbps2 | 4.8 |
Routing/firewall (1,518 B packet size) Gbps2 | 9.2 |
IPsec VPN (IMIX packet size) Gbps2 | 1.3 |
IPsec VPN (1400 B packet size) in Gbps2 | 4.5 |
Application visibility and control in Gbps3 | 7.9 |
Recommended IPS in Gbps3 | 3.3 |
Next-generation firewall in Gbps4 | 2.1 |
Secure Web Access firewall in Gbps5 | 1.6 |
Route table size (RIB/FIB) (IPv4) | 2 million / 1 million |
Maximum concurrent sessions (IPv4 or IPv6) | 2,000,000 |
Maximum security policies | 16,000 |
Connections per second | 90,000 |
NAT rules | 8,000 |
Media access control (MAC) table size | 64,000 (standalone mode) |
IPsec VPN tunnels | 2,000 |
Number of remote access/SSL VPN (concurrent) users | 2,000 |
GRE tunnels | 2,048 |
Maximum security zones | 512 |
Maximum virtual router | 512 |
Maximum VLANs | 3,900 |
Juniper Networks Services and Support
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