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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.

•Includes an embedded, web-accessible Traffic Analyzer interface that presents both configuration menus and real-time and historical reports.

•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.

•Offers web-based captures and decodes for anytime, anywhere troubleshooting.

•Analyzes the performance of IP-based services, including VoIP, video, and QoS.

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.

•Ensures high availability when installed in a redundant Cisco Catalyst 6500 configuration, maintaining SSL sessions if hardware failures occur.

•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.

•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.

•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.

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.

•Allows any port on Cisco 7600 or Cisco Catalyst 6500 to operate as a firewall port and integrates firewall security inside the network infrastructure.

•Provides unsurpassed performance to meet future requirements, scaling to up to 20 Gbps per chassis without requiring a system overhaul.

•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.

•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.

•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.

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