Cisco Firepower 1000 Series Appliances The Cisco Firepower^® 1000 Series is a family of three threat-focused Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) security platforms that deliver business resiliency through superior threat defense. It offers exceptional sustained performance when advanced threat functions are enabled. The 1000 Series' throughput range addresses use cases from the small office, home office, remote branch office to the Internet edge. The 1000 Series platforms run Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD). Support for Cisco^® Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Firewall will be added in a later release.