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Firewall Services Module
This module delivers the fastest firewall data rates
in the industry: 5 Gbps throughput, 100,000 CPS,
and one million concurrent connections. Up to
four modules can be installed in a single chassis,
offering scalability to 20 Gbps per chassis.
Based on Cisco PIX
®
Firewall technology, it
provides large enterprises and service providers
with unmatched security, reliability, and
performance.
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Allows any port on Cisco 7600 or Cisco
Catalyst 6500 to operate as a firewall port and
integrates firewall security inside the network
infrastructure.
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Provides unsurpassed performance to meet
future requirements, scaling to up to 20 Gbps
per chassis without requiring a system overhaul.
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Offers the best price/performance ratio of any
firewall, utilizing the familiar, time-tested Cisco
PIX Operating System to reduce the cost of
training, and integrating firewall services into the
chassis to reduce management requirements.
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An intuitive graphical user interface (GUI)
simplifies management and configuration,
and it’s supported by the Cisco management
framework and by Cisco AVVID partners for
configuration and monitoring.
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Virtualized FWSM delivers multiple firewalls
on one physical hardware platform, allowing
network administrators to configure, deploy,
and manage functions as if they were
separate devices, while reducing the cost and
complexity of managing network infrastructure.
Cisco Security Services Modules
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SSL Services Module
This module offloads processor-intensive tasks
related to securing traffic with Secure Sockets
Layer (SSL), increases the number of secure
connections supported by a web site, and
reduces the operational complexity of high
performance web server farms.
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Ensures high availability when installed in a
redundant Cisco Catalyst 6500 configuration,
maintaining SSL sessions if hardware failures
occur.
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Simplifies security management while
encrypting user data to the web servers,
providing privacy, confidentiality, and
authentication using a wide range of certificates,
including Netscape and VeriSign.
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An integrated Content Switching Module or
external load-balancing appliance can load
balance secure HTTPS content requests
to multiple Cisco SSL services modules,
maximizing SSL termination performance and
providing SSL scalability.
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Provides the best price/performance ratio of
any SSL accelerator on the market. Cost of
maintenance is included in the maintenance
contract of the Cisco Catalyst chassis, providing
cost savings on annual service contracts. And
by offloading the processing-intensive SSL
termination burden from the web servers, the
SSL Service Module eliminates the need to
purchase additional servers.
Network Analysis Module
This module provides traffic monitoring services
for visibility into network and application usage,
helping network managers troubleshoot delivery
issues, improve the utilization of network
resources, and ease the deployment of new
network services. The NAM is available in two
hardware versions, NAM-1 and NAM-2, to meet
diverse network analysis needs in scalable
switching environments.
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Includes an embedded, web-accessible
Traffic Analyzer interface that presents both
configuration menus and real-time and historical
reports.
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Provides visibility into what applications
are running on the network and how they’re
performing, tracking response times and
identifying whether issues are server- or
network-related.
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Offers web-based captures and decodes for
anytime, anywhere troubleshooting.
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Analyzes the performance of IP-based services,
including VoIP, video, and QoS.
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