SSL Services Module

This module offloads processor-intensive tasks related to securing traffic with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), increases the number of secure connections supported by a web site,and reduces the operational complexity of high performance web server farms.

• Ensures high availability when installed in a redundant Cisco Catalyst 6500 (LDA2409) configuration, maintaining SSL sessions if hardware failures occur.

• Simplifies security management while encrypting user data to the web servers,  providing privacy, confidentiality, and  authentication using a wide range of certificates, including Netscape and VeriSign. 

• An integrated Content Switching Module or external load-balancing appliance can load balance secure HTTPS content requests to multiple Cisco SSL services modules, maximizing SSL termination performance and providing SSL scalability.

• Provides the best price/performance ratio of any SSL accelerator on the market. Cost of maintenance is included in the maintenance contract of the Cisco Catalyst chassis, providing cost savings on annual service contracts.And  by offloading the processing-intensive SSL termination burden from the web servers, the SSL Service Module eliminates the need to purchase additional servers