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Joe Harris, CCIE No. 6200 (R&S, Security & SP) is a Systems Engineer with Cisco Systems® specializing in Security. In addition to authoring Cisco Network Security Little Black Book, Joe has also been a technical reviewer for several Cisco Press publications and written articles, white papers, and presentations on various security technologies. He also assists various Certification Partners by beta testing their newest CCIE certification workbooks and has been recognized by Cisco as an SE Wall of Fame award winner.

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Cisco Catalyst 6500 VSS Smashes Throughput Records

January 9th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

I have configured it and seen it with my own eyes….Exclusive NetworkWorld tests show new Catalyst 6500 VSS sets records for recovery times and throughput…Take a read of the articule here:

Cisco’s virtual switch smashes throughput records

Quotes from the Article:

“The results were impressive: VSS not only delivers a 20 fold improvement in failover times but also eliminates layer-2 and layer-3 redundancy protocols at the same time”

“The performance numbers are even more startling: A VSS-enabled virtual switch moved a record 770 million frames per second in one test, and routed more than 5.6 billion unicast and multicast flows in another”

“Cisco’s VSS is a significant advancement in the state of the switching art. It dramatically improves availability with much faster recovery times, while simultaneously providing a big boost in bandwidth.”

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