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Modular Switches: Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series
Communication Media Module (CMM)
This module provides high-performance and high-
density voice over IP (VoIP) gateways and media
services, allowing organizations to connect their
existing time-division multiplexing (TDM) network
to their IP communications network, provide
connectivity to the public switched telephone
network (PSTN), and enable conferencing,
transcoding, and media termination services for
their IP Communication networks.
• Supports four port adapters in a single line
card, including 6-port T1, 6-port E1, 24-port
foreign- exchange-station (FXS), and 128-port
conferencing and transcoding.
• Integration of VoIP gateways, analog, and digital,
and conferencing and transcoding in a single
Applications Control Engine Module
This module is Cisco's next-generation application
delivery solution, providing the industry's highest
throughput (up to 16 Gigabits per second), rich
multilayer security, and unique virtual partitioning
capabilities. The ACE multiservice module offers
many new capabilities, including hundreds of virtual
partitions, per-partition resource allocation, role-
based access control, and an XML management API.
This module is Cisco's next-generation application
delivery solution, providing the industry's highest
throughput (up to 16 Gigabits per second), rich
multilayer security, and unique virtual partitioning
capabilities. The ACE multiservice module offers
many new capabilities, including hundreds
of virtual partitions, per-partition resource
allocation, role-based access control, and an XML
management API.
• Partitions network up to 250 logical devices
that can be managed and operated separately.
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module saves space and allows for remote
management along with the other Catalyst 6500
modules.
• Field- upgradable components allow customers
to easily add, replace, or change interface port
adapters without upgrading or replacing the
entire module.
• Hot-swappable design allows hardware
maintenance with little or no service interruption,
since only the calls on the card being removed
or replaced are affected.
• Cisco AVVID design lends itself to the robust,
fault-tolerant architecture of clustered Cisco
CallManagers.
Role-based access control capabilities enable IT
to delegate management tasks to distributed IT
teams, guarantee resource levels for each logical
partition, and apply desired functions to each
partition separately.
• Allows IT to control the infrastructure centrally
while delegating application administration
to separate operational teams. Also simplifies
application infrastructures, shortens the
workflow necessary to bring applications and
business services online, and shortens time-to-
deployment of applications.
• Also consolidates functionality such as server
load balancing and off-load application
acceleration, and application-layer security.
• Supports 4, 8, or 16 Gbps of data throughput and
up to 345,000 sustained connection setups per
second. Several ACE modules can be deployed
in a Catalyst 6500 chassis for even higher
throughput.
Content Switching Module
This module adds advanced, high-performance
Layer 4–7 content switching and load balancing to
existing Layer 2 and 3 features of the Catalyst 6500
switches, reducing application response times,
optimizing service delivery, increasing application
time, and increasing service scalability for servers,
firewalls, VPN devices, SSL termination devices,
and caches.
• Supports a wide range of common IP protocols,
including TCP, User Datagram Protocol (UDP),
and higher-level protocols, including Hypertext
Transfer Protocol (HTTP), File Transfer Protocol
(FTP), Telnet, Domain Name System (DNS), Real-
Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), and Simple Mail
Transfer Protocol (SMTP).
Content Switching Module with SSL
This module combines advanced Layer 4–7 content
switching capabilities with Secure Sockets Layer
acceleration, freeing backend servers from the
CPU-intensive task of processing SSL transactions.
• High-speed content switching provides load
balancing, increases performance, ensures
connection persistence, and helps maximize
uptime for application and Web servers, caches,
firewalls, and other devices.
• End-to-end encryption with intelligent load
balancing ensures information on the network
never appears as clear text.
Cisco Security Service Modules
Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches support a variety of high-performance security modules that protect
networks from the full range of threats, while also simplifying management and reducing overhead by
consolidating security services into the switching chassis.
• Reduces the cost and complexity of deploying
content switching services by allowing for
integration into existing infrastructure.
• Fault-tolerant configurations to provide improved
application uptime, utilizing both connection and
sticky state redundancy for seamless failover.
• Ability to integrate content switching services
into an existing infrastructure minimizes the time
and resources required for deployment.
• High-density, scalable platform with proven
reliability offers unparalleled investment
protection.
• Reduces the number of SSL devices needed
and reduces the number of certificates that a site
requires to purchase and manage, lowering both
capital and operating expenses.
• Combines content switching and SSL
acceleration in a single chassis slot, freeing up
space for other integrated services.
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