ASA 5500 10 to 20 Security Context License Upgrade | Cisco — L-ASA-SC-10-20=

Increase the number of firewall partitions available on your ASA 5500 deployment with a license upgrade from 10 to 20 security contexts. For teams running shared security infrastructure, that extra context capacity can be the difference between a constrained design and a cleanly segmented environment. Security contexts let a single ASA appliance operate as multiple logical firewalls, each with its own policies, interfaces, and routing behavior. That makes this upgrade valuable for service providers, large enterprises, and organizations that need to separate business units, labs, or customer environments while keeping the hardware footprint under control. This is a licensing step, not a hardware refresh. It is intended for Cisco ASA 5500 environments that have outgrown the original context limit and need more logical separation without introducing another firewall platform. For procurement, it is a targeted way to extend the utility of an installed base while preserving operational consistency and reducing the cost of architectural sprawl. Ideal For Segment multiple business units on a shared ASA 5500 firewall Separate customer environments in a managed security deployment Isolate lab, production, and partner traffic on one appliance Increase logical firewall capacity without purchasing new hardware Why This Product 1 Doubles security context capacity from 10 to 20 2 Supports logical firewall separation on the ASA 5500 3 Avoids hardware replacement for segmentation growth 4 Fits environments that need multiple policy domains on one appliance