When it comes to innovation, one of Cisco's secret weapons is teamwork. When it comes to Content Networking innovation, the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Content Switching Module (CSM) outperforms all competition. The creation of the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Content Switching Module has propelled Cisco to the forefront of Content Networking and the server load-balancing market segment.The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Content Switching Module is a high-performance layer4/layer7 server load balancer built by using off-the-shelf components. It is a device that places between clients and servers in a network which allows intelligent scaling of web sites to a very large number of servers. The Cisco Catalyst 6000/6500 achieves its high performance server load balancing through the innovative use of a pipeline of network processors and distributed software.