Specifications

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Content Networking at a Glance
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Content Networking
Content Networking at a Glance
Product Features Page
Cisco Content Engine 500
Series
Content services edge delivery platform for Enterprise networks
• Functions as edge node device in an Application and Content Networking (ACN) system
• Responsible for delivery of cached or distributed content to the end-user
• Enables customers to rapidly deliver strategic applications to branch personnel including
web application and content acceleration, content filtering and business video
• Lays the foundation for advanced services such as e-learning and point of sale video
delivery.
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Cisco Content Engine 7300
Series
Content services platform for Enterprise data center and Service Provider networks
• Offers premium hosting services
• Caching capabilities optimize Web site performance and WAN bandwidth utilization
• Offers transparent and Internet proxy caching, Content Filtering and ECDN capabilities in a
single platform
• Accelerates both HTTP and streaming media file formats
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Content Engine Network
Modules
Content services edge delivery network module for 2600, 3600, 3700 branch routers
• Functions as edge node device in an Application and Content Networking (ACN) system
• Enables delivery of new applications and services via a Cisco branch router with no
performance degradation of core routing services
• Allows rapid delivery of strategic applications to branch personnel including web
application and content acceleration, content filtering and business video
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Cisco 11500 Series Content
Services Switches
• Provides an intelligent, distributed architecture to scale for today’s e-business
infrastructure
• Offers 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
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Cisco Content Distribution
Manager (CDM)
Content networking policy and management device
• Central control over acquisition and distribution of content in the network, including live
video, video on demand, and software updates
• Web-based GUI provides integrated management over caching and content delivery
functions such as multicast replication, intelligent cache bypass and bandwidth
management
• Roles based access control securely enables multiple administrators and content
publishers across the organization
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Cisco Content Router
• Integrated global load balancing solution for content delivery networks
• Uses HTTP to redirect a client to the best site on the Internet based on network delay
• Transparently redirection that works with any IP application
• Extremely fast site-selection algorithm is optimized for high performance Web-style
transactions
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Content Switching Module
(CSM) for the Catalyst 6500
Series Switches
High performance Content Switching line card for Catalyst 6500
• L4 and L7, Firewall, VPN, Cache and Server load balancing
• Intelligently balances client traffic across multiple devices
• Full State and Sticky State redundancy; Full Regular Expression support
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Cisco SSL Module for
Catalyst 6500
• Offloads SSL encryption and decryption
• Scalable performance
• Stickyness
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Cisco 11000 Series
Secure Content Accelerator
(SCA 11000)
• Offloads SSL encryption/decryption from Web servers
• Supports 200 new SSL connections and 900 sustained SSL sessions per second
• Interoperates with the CSS 11000 for intelligent load balancing of SSL traffic
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Cisco DistributedDirector
• Solves distributed server site selection problems. Enables a set of distributed servers to be
seen as a single virtual server
• Uses DNS to redirect a client to the best site on the Internet based on a variety of options
• Configurable as authoritative Domain Name Services (DNS) caching name server and/or
HTTP Session Redirector on a per-domain basis
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Cisco GSS 4480 Global Site
Selector
• Delivers global load balancing for multiple data centers
• Offloads Domain Named System (DNS) servers by doing DNS resolution
• Scales to support hundreds of data centers or server load balancers (SLBs)
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