Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series SSL Services Module

Cisco Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Services Module for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco 7600 Series Internet Routers dramatically accelerates the performance and enhances the security of Web-enabled applications, providing comprehensive secure content networking while guaranteeing a swift and persistent customer experience. It accomplishes this by increasing the number of secure connections supported by a Web site by offloading the processor-intensive tasks related to securing traffic with the SSL protocol.

SSL integration with the Cisco Content Switching Module (CSM) provides for a high-performance, scalable, and secure server load balancing solution by accelerating both encrypted and non-encrypted traffic while offloading resource-intensive functions from Web servers.

Key Features

• Certificate optimization - Encrypts user data to the Web servers, providing privacy, confidentiality, and authentication. SSL uses a wide range of certificates that reside on the module, thus centralizing certificate management, eliminating the need to manage certificates on individual servers, and reducing cost by requiring a single certificate copy versus a certificate copy for each server.
• Deterministic performance - Provides the fastest SSL session setup rates and bulk encrypted throughput in the industry: 2,500 connection setups/sec per module (12,000) per chassis); 300-Mbps bulk encrypted throughput per module (1.2-Gbps per chasses) while maintaining 50,000 concurrent client connections (200,000 per chassis).
• Persistent connections - Maintains persistence even when clients request new session IDs when operating with the Cisco CSM (Integrated Mode).
• Server SSL offload - Integrates SSL processing and performs all SSL-related tasks, allowing servers to handle high-speed clear-text traffic.