Cisco CSS 11501 Content Services Switch (CSS11501S-K9=) Load Balancing Device

The Cisco CSS 11500 Series, with the award-winning Cisco Web Network Services (WebNS), is specifically designed to provide robust transport and application (Layer 4-7) services for Internet and intranet data centers. 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. ??In a typical deployment, the Cisco CSS 11500 Series intercepts a request from a client browser, characterizes the flow by reading Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) headers, selects a destination server based on resource availability, and forwards the flow. Because it quickly processes th...