The Cisco CSS 11500, with the award-winning Cisco Web Network Services (WebNS) Software, is specifically designed to provide robust application delivery (Layer 4 to 7) services for Internet and intranet data centers.The Cisco CSS 11500 Series Content Services Switch enables businesses to simultaneously reduce costs by optimizing, scaling and securing data center, network, and application resources, which improves productivity of those resources, therefore offering a superior experience for customers, business partners, and employees. Through content fast switching and forwarding, the Cisco CSS 11500 Series improves utilization, responsiveness, availability, scalability, and security of Websites, server farms, cache clusters, firewall systems and many others application infrastructure components.