Cisco WS-SVC-FWM-1 6500/7600 Series Firewall Services Module

Cisco 6500/7600 Series Firewall Services Module, WS-SVC-FWM-1

The Cisco Firewall Services Module (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. It provides up to 5.5 Gbps of throughput, 100,000 new connections per second, one million concurrent connections or 256,000 NAT translations, and up to 80,000 Access Control List Entries. Up to four FWSMs can be installed in a single chassis, providing scalability up to 20 Gbps per chassis. As an extension to the Cisco PIX/ASA family of security appliances, the FWSM provides large enterprises and service providers with superior security, performance, and reliability.

Features:

5.5 Gbps throughput per service module
Up to 4 FWSMs (20 Gbps) per Catalyst 6500 chassis with static VLAN or IOS Policy-based Routing
2.8 Mpps
1 million concurrent connections
100,000 connection setups and teardowns per second
256,000 concurrent NAT or PAT translations
Jumbo Ethernet packets (8500 bytes) supported
VLAN Interfaces
1000 total per service module
256 VLANs per security context in routed mode
8 VLAN pairs per security context in transparent mode