Cisco CSS 11501 Datasheet

Cisco CSS 11500 Series
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Content Services Switch

The Cisco CSS 11500 Series Content Services Switch is a compact modular platform,
delivering the richest Layer 4–7 traffic management services for e-business applications.
The Cisco CSS 11500 with the
award-winning Cisco Web Network
Services (WebNS) is specifically designed to
provide robust transport and application
(Layer 4–7) services for Internet and
intranet data centers. The Cisco CSS 11500
builds on the success of the Cisco CSS
11000 Series in five key areas:
• Introduces an intelligent, distributed
architecture to meet the real-world
scaling requirements of today's
e-business infrastructure
• Improves site availability and
transaction integrity by introducing
Adaptive Session Redundancy (ASR)—
a new industry standard in stateful
failover
• Delivers the greatest flexibility of
any content switch in its class for
customizing combinations of ports,
performance, and services
• Scales secured transaction performance
through support of an integrated,
high-capacity Secure Sockets Layer
(SSL) module (WebNS 5.20)
• Protects investment by enabling
upgrades of performance, ports, and
services through modularity
The Cisco CSS 11500 Series Content
Services Switch enables businesses to
simultaneously reduce costs by optimizing
data center resources and boost
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productivity by offering a superior online
experience for customers, business partners,
and employees. Through fast switching and
forwarding of content, the Cisco CSS
11500 Series switches improve utilization,
responsiveness, availability, scalability, and
security of Web sites, server farms, cache
clusters, and firewall systems.
Premier Traffic Management
for E-Business
In addition to the Cisco CSS 11500, Cisco
delivers a complete product line, including
the Cisco CSS 11050, CSS 11150, and
Content Switching Module (CSM)—an
integrated services module for the Cisco
Catalyst® 6500 Series Switch and Cisco
7600 Internet Router. The Cisco CSM
attains the highest performance and offers
transport and application (Layer 4–7)
features as rich as those in WebNS.
Through full integration with Cisco IOS®
Software, the Cisco Catalyst 6500, and the
Cisco 7600 Internet Router—Cisco CSM
also supports the highest port density and
richest internetworking features.
The Cisco CSS 11500 and CSM together
are, simply, the solutions of choice for
enterprises and service providers deploying
content services.
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