Cisco Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 32 PISA Bulletins

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Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(18)ZYA Cisco Catalyst
6500 Series Switches with Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor
Engine 32 PISA

PB468195

Cisco

IOS

Software Release 12.2(18)ZYA is for the Cisco Catalyst

6500 Supervisor Engine 32

(Programmable Intelligent Services Accelerator (PISA) on Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches.

Overview

The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 32 PISA, the next-generation supervisor engine for the

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series of modular switches, delivers superior and integrated deep packet

inspection, application awareness, security, availability, and manageability services for the

networks of small and medium-sized businesses, enterprises, and service providers. This

supervisor engine is ideal for securing campus access networks, converged services, MAN/WAN

applications, and small/medium backbone functions. The PISA on the Cisco Catalyst 6500

Supervisor Engine 32 PISA provides hardware acceleration of intelligent services such as network-

based application recognition (NBAR) and flexible packet matching (FPM) at multigigabit speeds,

in addition to the management and control plane functions traditionally provided by the Multilayer

Switch Feature Card (MSFC).

Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(18)ZYA provides significant service enhancements and several

innovative features to the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 32 PISA, including:

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Extending PISA NBAR and FPM services from Layer 3 routed wiring closet deployments to

Layer 2 wiring closet deployments.

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Software integration with Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Firewall Services Module (FWSM) to

provide application-aware firewall policy enforcement.

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URL filtering to allow customers to enforce Internet usage policy at enterprise WAN or

branch offices. This helps enterprises to improve employee productivity, conserve network

bandwidth, and mitigate legal liability.

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Enhanced Power over Ethernet (PoE) support.

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New NBAR packet description language modules (PDLMs) covering more than 30

applications and network protocols including instant messaging applications such as

Yahoo! Messenger, MSN and AOL messenger; enterprise applications such as Microsoft

Outlook, Cisco Unified IP phones and PC-based Unified Personal Communicators, and

Common Internet File System (CIFS); healthcare applications such as DICOM and HL7;

and financial applications such as FIX; network protocols such as VNC, ISAKMP etc.

Hardware Support

There is no new hardware support added to Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(18)ZYA. Cisco IOS

Software Release 12.2(18)ZYA supports all of the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series hardware previously

supported in Release 12.2(18)ZY.