Data Sheet
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Layer 4 Through 7 Services Modules
The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series offers an extensive set of services modules for Layer 4 through 7
applications, including content services, network monitoring, security, and telephony.
Content Services Modules
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Cisco Content Services Gateway: Facilitates differentiated billing, user balance
enforcement, and activity tracking for customer billing systems. For more information, visit
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/wireless/wirelssw/ps779/product_data_sheet09
186a00801abf75.html.
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Cisco Content Switching Module: Integrates advanced content switching into the Cisco
Catalyst 6500 Series to provide high-performance, high availability load balancing of
caches, firewalls, Web servers, and other network devices. For more information, visit
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/modules/ps2706/products_data_sheet09186a008
00887f3.html.
Network Monitoring
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Cisco Network Analysis Module (NAM 1 and 2): Provides application-level visibility into
the network infrastructure for real-time traffic analysis, performance monitoring, and
troubleshooting; performs traffic monitoring with embedded Web-based Traffic Analyzer.
Security Services Modules
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Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Firewall Services Module: The module allows any port in the
chassis to operate as a firewall port and integrates stateful firewall security inside the
network infrastructure.
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Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Intrusion Detection System Services Module (IDSM and
IDSM-2): Takes traffic from the switch backplane at wire speed, integrating IDS functions
directly into the switch. For more information, visit
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_data_sheet09186a0080
1e55dd.html.
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Cisco 7600/Catalyst 6500 IPSec VPN Services Module: Provides infrastructure-
integrated IPSec VPN services capable of 1.9-Gbps Triple Data Encryption Standard
(3DES) performance, 8000 active tunnels, and up to 60 tunnels per second. For more
information, visit
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/modules/ps2706/ps4221/index.html.
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Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series SSL Services Module: Offloads processor-intensive tasks
related to securing traffic, with SSL accelerating the performance and increasing the
security of Web-enabled applications. For more information, visit
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/modules/ps2706/products_data_sheet09186a008
00c4fe9.html.
Wireless Services Modules
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Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Wireless LAN Services Module: Helps enables fast, secure,
campuswide WLAN roaming within and across IP subnets, enhances WLAN security (user-
group segmentation and Cisco Catalyst integrated security services, for example), and
simplifies WLAN deployment and management. For more information, visit
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps708/product_data_sheet091
86a00802252b7.html.
Switch Fabric Modules
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