The new Cisco® Firewall Security System bundles allow customers to order a Cisco Catalyst® 6500 Series firewall system that includes a Supervisor Engine 720-3BXL and a Firewall Services Module (FWSM). [[query: does it also include a switch?]] Each bundle can be configured with up to four FWSMs to deliver 20 Gbps of performance.
The FWSM for Cisco Catalyst® 6500 Series Switches and Cisco 7600 Series Routers is a high-performance, integrated stateful inspection firewall with application and protocol inspection engines, providing 5.5 Gbps of throughput; 100,000 connections per second; and one million concurrent connections.
Table 1 lists the benefits of the new Cisco Firewall Security System bundles.
Table 1. Benefits Table
Feature
Description
Cisco Catalyst 6500 Firewall Security System
• Cisco Catalyst 6500 Firewall Security System with one FWSM to provide 5.5 Gbps performance with the ability to add three more FWSMs for a 20-Gbps system
High Performance, High Scalability, Low Latency
• 5 Gbps per FWSM, 20 Gbps per chassis
• 2.8 million pps, 1 million concurrent connections
• 100,000 cps; 80,000 ACLs; and 1000 VLANs per FWSM
• Low latency (30 microsecs)
• 12,000 registered IP phones
• Future-proofed as network traffic grows
• Secures latency-sensitive applications such as financial market data and VoIP
Rich Stateful Inspection
• Proven Cisco PIX® OS features
• RFC conformance check
• DoS protection
• Advanced application inspection control
• Market-leading firewall features
• Broad protocol support, including voice and multimedia
Firewall Services Virtualization
• Up to 250 virtual firewalls
• All policies, monitoring, and logging per virtual firewall
• Resource manager provides maximum limits for resource usage per virtual firewall
High Availability
• Intra- or inter-chassis stateful failover
• Active-standby and active-active
• Cisco IOS® Software auto-state support for rapid detection of VLAN failures
