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Prisma Access Sizing Calculator
Estimate regions, resilience, throughput, remote network scale, and mobile user assumptions without leaving the website experience.
Architecture Estimator
Built for advisory workshops and customer planning sessions
Use this calculator to quickly shape sizing assumptions for Prisma Access remote networks, mobile users, ZTNA, service connections, regional placement, and resilience posture. The recommendations are intentionally heuristic, editable, and safe for pre-sales and planning conversations.
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Prisma Access Sizing Calculator
Enter the few planning inputs that matter most. The calculator will estimate logging storage, per-branch SPN bandwidth, and an architectural recommendation.
Estimate updated
Compact input panel, clear recommendation card, and instant client-side updates.
Mixed deployment planning
Use the broader input set when the design combines mobile users, branches, ZTNA, and service connections.
Modeled throughput
Adjustable for overall deployment sizing. Keep it simple and use the slider.
4 Gbps
Prisma Access Architectural Estimate
Prisma Access Sizing Report
Estimated 15 TB purchase recommendation with 14.77 TB modeled storage demand and 59 Mbps per-branch SPN bandwidth. This report is optimized for workshops, proposal notes, and internal planning reviews.
Recommendation overview
| Deployment mode | Smart estimator |
| Deployment type | Mixed Deployment |
| Recommended tier | Enterprise Plus |
| Recommended regions | North America, Europe, Asia Pacific |
| HA model | dual-region-active-active |
| Estimated logging storage | 14.77 TB |
| Per-branch bandwidth | 59 Mbps |
| Estimated throughput | 4 Gbps |
Input assumptions
| Mobile users | 2500 |
| NGFW logs / second | 0 |
| Branch users per site | 120 |
| Branch sites / remote networks | 24 |
| Private / ZTNA apps | 12 |
| Service connections | 2 |
| Logging retention | 30-days |
| Redundancy level | enhanced |
| Regions | North America, Europe |
Architecture table
| Component | Quantity | Capacity | Region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile User Capacity Pool | 2,500 | 0.9 Gbps | North America, Europe, Asia Pacific |
| Remote Networks / Branches | 24 | 4 Gbps | North America, Europe, Asia Pacific |
| Remote Network SPN Per Branch | 24 | 59 Mbps | North America, Europe, Asia Pacific |
| ZTNA Connector Pool | 4 | 12 apps | North America, Europe, Asia Pacific |
| Service Connections | 2 | Hybrid service reachability | North America, Europe, Asia Pacific |
| NGFW Logging | 0 | 0.00 TB | North America, Europe, Asia Pacific |
| HA / Resilience | 1 model | dual-region-active-active | North America, Europe, Asia Pacific |
Scale graph
Relative scale across the main planning dimensions in this estimate.
Logging storage14.77 TB
Per-branch bandwidth59 Mbps
Remote footprint24
Throughput4 Gbps
Recommendations and advisories
- Use regional onboarding zones and isolate high-bandwidth branches for review.
- Model user affinity and failover load at a regional level rather than as one aggregate.
- Plan multi-region connector pools with explicit spare capacity.
- Distribute service connections across hybrid estates and validate east-west dependencies.
- Thirty-day retention is a practical enterprise baseline for operations and investigations.
- Iframe-safe V1 embed: This route is optimized for iframe embedding so the logic stays local, fast, and operationally simple.
- Multi-region deployment recommended: The current heuristic score suggests a multi-region posture for resilience and maintenance headroom.
- Mixed deployment complexity is elevated: Combined mobile, branch, ZTNA, and service assumptions are useful for planning but should be broken down during detailed design.
Assumptions and disclaimer
Architectural estimate only. This embedded calculator uses editable heuristic assumptions and does not represent official Palo Alto Networks pricing, licensing, or final sizing guidance.
V1 intentionally uses local client-safe heuristics for fast, low-risk embedding.
Logging storage is estimated from user count, retention, and editable per-user-per-day storage assumptions.
Per-branch SPN bandwidth is estimated from branch users per site using editable local heuristics.
Official sizing logic can later replace these formulas without changing the embed contract.
Workshop-ready summary
Prisma Access Sizing Calculator Summary Deployment mode: Simple Selected deployment type(s): Mixed Deployment Major inputs - NGFW logs per second: 0 - Throughput: 4 Gbps - Redundancy level: enhanced - Required regions: North America, Europe - Branch users per site: 120 - Branch sites / remote networks: 24 - Mobile users: 2500 - Private apps: 12 - Service connections: 2 - Logging retention: 30-days - ADEM enabled: Yes - Clean pipe assumptions: Yes - Local internet breakout: Yes Recommendations - Recommended Strata Logging Service purchase: 15 TB - Recommended tier: Enterprise Plus - Recommended regions: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific - HA model: dual-region-active-active - Estimated Strata logging storage: 14.77 TB - Estimated per-branch remote network bandwidth: 59 Mbps - Remote network recommendation: Use regional onboarding zones and isolate high-bandwidth branches for review. - Mobile user recommendation: Model user affinity and failover load at a regional level rather than as one aggregate. - ZTNA recommendation: Plan multi-region connector pools with explicit spare capacity. - Service connection guidance: Distribute service connections across hybrid estates and validate east-west dependencies. - Logging recommendation: Thirty-day retention is a practical enterprise baseline for operations and investigations. Advisory notes - Iframe-safe V1 embed: This route is optimized for iframe embedding so the logic stays local, fast, and operationally simple. - Multi-region deployment recommended: The current heuristic score suggests a multi-region posture for resilience and maintenance headroom. - Mixed deployment complexity is elevated: Combined mobile, branch, ZTNA, and service assumptions are useful for planning but should be broken down during detailed design. Disclaimer Architectural estimate only. This embedded calculator uses editable heuristic assumptions and does not represent official Palo Alto Networks pricing, licensing, or final sizing guidance.
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Prisma Access Estimate
Clear estimate for storage, branch bandwidth, and deployment scale.
Total Strata Logging Service
15 TB
Modeled demand: 14.77 TB
Per-Branch SPN Bandwidth
59 Mbps
Estimated remote network bandwidth required for each branch.
Recommended Tier
Enterprise Plus
dual-region-active-active
Deployment focusMixed Deployment
Recommended regionsNorth America, Europe, Asia Pacific
NGFW storage-
Prisma Access storage14.77 TB
Estimated throughput4 Gbps
Estimated remote networks24
Estimated mobile users2,500
Architectural estimate only. Heuristic assumptions are editable and intended for planning use, not official licensing or final sizing.