The Cisco Content Switching Module (CSM) and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Switching Module offer a high performance, integrated load balancing, and Web security solution that takes advantage of the rich Layer 2-3 features of Cisco Catalyst 6500 series. This gives customers the flexibility of enabling any/all ports for content switching, providing scalability with investment protection for the Catalyst 6500 series.This bundle offers the highest performance of any secure content switching solution available in the market today. The Cisco CSM can establish up to 165 000 connections per second while maintaining one million concurrent connections. The Cisco SSL Module can establish up to 3000 new connections per second while maintaining almost 60 000 simultaneous connections. The SSL Module can support up to 300 MB of bulk encryption.