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Published on: 5/1/2006
Last Visited: 9/12/2006
According to Rajesh Shetty, Business Development Manager, Cisco Systems, India, switching protects applications and networks with multi-layer security at multiple points of attack.This tight security, without affecting switch performance, is done via multiple application-layer security, security acceleration, secure transaction and load balancing services.
He further explains that the security is guaranteed through comprehensive application-layer intrusion prevention, Denial of Service (DoS) protection, packet filtering, application abuse protection, SSL acceleration, SSL VPN, network address translation (NAT) and secure management.
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The largest contributor to high-end switching has been the need for integrated services," says Shetty.