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Data Sheet
Cisco CSS 11500 Series
Content Services Switch
The Cisco CSS 11500 Series Content Services Switch is a compact
platform, delivering the richest Layer 4–7 traffic management services for
e-business applications.
Pictured above, from
top to bottom, the
Cisco CSS 11501, the
Cisco CSS 11503, and
the Cisco CSS 11506.
The Cisco CSS 11500, with the
award-winning Cisco Web Network
Services(WebNS),isspecifically designedto
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 help organizations 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
• Protects investments 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 boosting
productivity, as well as offering a superior
online experience for customers, business
partners, and employees. Through content
fast switching and forwarding, 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
switches, Cisco delivers a complete product
line, including the Cisco CSS 11050,
CSS 11150,andContentSwitchingModule
(CSM)—an integrated services module for
the Cisco Catalyst
®
6500 Series Switch and
Cisco7600InternetRouter. TheCiscoCSM
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
comprehensive internetworking features.
The Cisco CSS 11500 and CSM together
are, simply, the ideal choicesfor enterprises
and service providers deploying content
services.

Cisco 11506 - CSS Content Services Switch Specifications