Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch Web Switching Module (WSM)

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Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch Web Switching Module (WSM)
The Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch Web Switching Module (WSM) integrates into the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 to extend capabilities of Nortel Web Switches — Layer 4 through 7 switching, Web OS traffic management and content-aware switching and security — to the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 platform. The Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch WSM has four external Gigabit Ethernet or 10/100 TX ports and direct interface to the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 backplane.

Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch Web Switching Module (WSM) Features

• Combines the port capacity and density of the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 with Nortel content-aware switching technology, to turn any existing Layer 2-3 Ethernet 8600 platform into a highly intelligent, content-aware device for Layer 2-7 Web switching.
• Delivers content-aware switching features that optimize network resources by using intelligent sub-string matching and Layer 7 precedence lookup and regular expression. 
• Facilitates sophisticated session-level persistence methods to maximize profitability while minimizing infrastructure impact. 
• Enhances security without degrading site performance via content filtering, advanced Layer 4-7 Delayed Binding, and industry leading application support for firewall, VPN and Intrusion Detection System (IDS) load balancing. 
• Meters, controls, and accounts for bandwidth use—by client, server farm, virtual service, application, user class, content type and other traffic classes—and supports guaranteed minimum, metered available, and maximum burst bandwidth rates.