WS-X6066-SLB-S-K9 Cisco Catalyst 6500 Content Switching Module with SSL

The WS-X6066-SLB-S-K9 is the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Content Switching Module with SSL (CSM-S). It combines high-performance server load balancing with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) offload, and the SSL daughter card is the termination card that accelerates SSL transactions. Content switching and SSL acceleration share a single chassis slot.

The CSM-S distributes client requests using Layer 3 to Layer 7 information across servers, firewalls, caches, VPN termination devices and other network devices. It can also terminate and initiate SSL-encrypted traffic, which allows intelligent load balancing with secure end-to-end encryption, and it reduces the number of SSL devices and certificates a site needs.

SSL support covers SSL 3.0 and SSL 3.1/TLS 1.0 handshakes, ARC4, DES and 3DES symmetric algorithms, RSA, and MD5 and SHA1 hashes. RSA key pairs for certificates are generated up to 2048 bits, keys are stored securely in the module Flash memory device, and a certificate chain can have up to 8 levels of certificate authority.

The CSM-S works with a Supervisor Engine 2 with MSFC2 running Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(18)SXD. Redundancy needs two CSMs or two CSM-S modules, as a CSM and a CSM-S cannot be mixed in a supported redundancy configuration. Another Catalyst 6500 service module is the WS-SVC-SSL-1-K9 SSL Services Module, and more Catalyst 6500 service modules are in Cisco modules and power supplies.