Table of Contents

Product Overview

Product Line

Key Features and Benefits

Cisco CSS 11050 Benefits
Cisco CSS 11150 Benefits
Cisco CSS 11800 Benefits

Specifications
Ordering Information

Cisco CSS 11000 Series — Overview

Product Overview

The Cisco CSS 11000 series content services switches are Layer 5/7 aware and provide a robust front-end for Web server farms and cache clusters. With unique features for e-commerce, Web hosting, and content delivery, the Cisco CSS 11000 series is an important piece in Cisco`s end-to-end content networking solution. Cisco`s CSS 11000 series switches, powered by Cisco Web Network Services (Web NS) software, offer unique services such as:

• Directing Web traffic based on full visibility of URLs, host tags, and cookies

• Enabling premium services for e-commerce and Web hosting providers

• Strengthening DoS protection, cache/firewall load-balancing, and 'flash-crowd` management

Product Line

Cisco CSS 11050 content services switch — A compact, high performance solution for small Web sites and POPs. The Cisco CSS 11050 combines centralized processing and memory resources for policy-based flow setup with distributed network processors that support wire-speed flow forwarding, in a single platform. This unique architecture supports traffic volumes of more than 1 billion hits per day.

For more information, see Cisco CSS 11050 Content Services Switch

Cisco CSS 11150 content services switch — A stand-alone, high performance solution for small-to-medium Web sites. The Cisco CSS 11150 combines centralized processing and memory resources for policy-based flow setup with distributed network processors that support wire-speed flow forwarding, in a single platform. This unique architecture supports traffic volumes of more than 1.7 billion hits per day.

For more information, see Cisco CSS 11150 — Content Services Switch

Cisco CSS 11800 content services switch — A high performance, chassis-based switching solution for large, high-traffic Web sites. The Cisco CSS 11800 combines symmetric multiprocessing and memory resources for policy-based flow setup with distributed network processors that support wire-speed flow forwarding, in a single platform. This unique architecture supports traffic volumes of more than 11 billion hits per day.

For more information, see Cisco CSS 11800 Content Services Switch

Key Features and Benefits

Cisco CSS 11050 Benefits

• Provides high-speed Web content delivery by selecting the best site and server based on full URL, cookie, and resource availability information

• Offers site-level security with wire-speed denial-of-service (DoS) prevention; firewall load-balancing provides scalable security for back-end data-bases and applications

• Delivers up to 400 percent improvement in Web cache efficiency for transparent, proxy, and reverse proxy configurations

• Provides eight full-duplex fast Ethernet ports and one optional gigabit Ethernet port

• Supports all TCP- and UDP-based Web protocols, wire-speed network address translation (NAT), and integrated IP routing

• Optimizes both content requests and delivery for HTTP, passive File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and streaming media protocols

• Enables advanced service level agreements (SLAs), and a variety of new fee-based services

Cisco CSS 11150 Benefits

• Provides high-speed Web content delivery by selecting the best site and server based on full URL, cookie, and resource availability information

• Offers site-level security with wire-speed denial-of-service (DoS) prevention; firewall load-balancing provides scalable security for back-end data-bases and applications

• Delivers up to 400 percent improvement in Web cache efficiency for transparent, proxy, and reverse proxy configurations

• Provides 12 or 16 full-duplex fast Ethernet ports or 12 fast Ethernet plus 2 gigabit Ethernet ports

• Supports all TCP- and UDP-based Web protocols, wire-speed network address translation (NAT), and integrated IP routing

• Optimizes both content requests and delivery for HTTP, passive File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and streaming media protocols

• Enables advanced service level agreements (SLAs), and a variety of new fee-based services

Cisco CSS 11800 Benefits

The CSS 11800 provides many benefits, including:

• High-speed Web content delivery by selecting the best site and server based on full URL, cookie, and resource availability information

• Site-level security with wire-speed denial-of-service (DoS) prevention; firewall load-balancing provides scalable security for backend databases and applications

• Up to 400 percent improvement in Web cache efficiency for transparent, proxy, and reverse proxy configurations

• 64 full-duplex 100BASE-TX ports, up to 48 100BASE-TX ports with 16 100BASE-FX ports, up to 32 gigabit Ethernet interfaces, or a combination of interfaces

• Supports all TCP- and UDP-based Web protocols, wire-speed Network Address Translation (NAT), and integrated IP routing

• Optimizes both content requests and delivery for HTTP, passive File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and streaming media protocols

• Enables advanced service-level agreements (SLAs), and a variety of new fee-based services

Specifications

See part number table below.

Ordering Information

Posted: Wed Sep 27 05:15:09 PDT 2000
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