Cisco Catalyst 6500 Ethernet Switches
With industry-leading services and performance, the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switch is Cisco’s flagship switching solution. It delivers the most comprehensive feature sets for core, distribution, wiring closet, data center, enterprise WAN routing, and Metro-Ethernet deployments. Cisco 6500 switches are designed for:
Architectural Scalability: Scale your data center Layer 2-7 services, physical infrastructure, and your virtualized infrastructure with comprehensive data center switching solutions.
Operational Manageability: Accelerate service velocity and honor service-level agreements with industry-leading automation, visibility, and serviceability capabilities.
Comprehensive Resilience: Maximize data center availability with advanced fault prevention, transparent recovery technologies, and capabilities that reduce time to resolution.
Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) Services Module
The Cisco ACE Module provides a broad set of intelligent Layer 4 load balancing and Layer 7 content switching technologies integrated with leading edge acceleration and security capabilities. The ACE Module offers:
Layer 4-7 intelligent load balancing.
Virtualized architecture (“VMware for your load balancer”: a key differentiator!), upgradeable via software licenses.
Best-in-industry scalability and throughput:
Up to 16Gbps on a single module, upgradeable via software licenses.
SSL offload, upgradeable via software licenses.
Server-farm security using deep packet inspection
Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM)
Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM) – a high-speed, integrated firewall module for Cisco Catalyst 6500 switches and Cisco 7600 Series routers – provides the fastest firewall data rates in the industry: 5-Gbps throughput, 100,000 CPS, and 1M concurrent connections. Up to four FWSMs can be installed in a single chassis, providing scalability to 20 Gbps per chassis. Based on Cisco PIX Firewall technology, the Cisco FWSM offers large enterprises and service providers unmatched security, reliability, and performance.
Cisco Network Analysis Module (NAM)
The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco 7600 Series NAM is a powerful integrated network monitoring solution designed to give you more visibility into your network than ever before. It shows you how the network is being used and how your users experience the services the network offers to help you improve network performance. Because Cisco NAM provides visibility for comprehensive performance monitoring and simplified troubleshooting, it is ideally suited for today's dynamic, evolving enterprises.
Cisco Catalyst 4948 Top-of-Rack Ethernet Switches
The Cisco Catalyst 4948 is a wire-speed, low-latency, Layer 2-4, 1 rack unit (RU) fixed-configuration switch for rack-optimized server switching. Based on the proven Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series hardware and software architecture, the Cisco Catalyst 4948 Series offers exceptional performance and reliability for low density, multilayer aggregation of high performance servers and workstations. The Cisco Catalyst 4948 offers 48 ports of wire-speed Gigabit Ethernet ports, dual power supplies, and either 4 Gigabit SFP or 2 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports.
Cisco 11500 Content Services Switch (Load Balancer)
The Cisco CSS 11500 Series Content Services Switch is a high-performance, high-availability modular architecture for Web infrastructures. As the premiere switch for the Cisco Web Network Services Software, the Cisco CSS 11500 Series helps businesses to build global Web networks optimized for content delivery and e-commerce. By activating HTTP headers, the CSS 11500 Series helps to ensure availability, optimize utilization, reduce latency, increase scalability, and enhance security for Websites, server farms, cache clusters, and firewall systems.
Cisco WAN Optimization: Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
Cisco WAAS is a powerful application acceleration and WAN optimization solution that accelerates the performance of any TCP-based application delivered across a WAN. Cisco WAAS overcomes poor application performance over the WAN, enables LAN-like performance when consolidating branch office IT infrastructure into a centralized data center, and improves data protection, backup, and replication for remote offices.
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