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Cisco WS-SVC-FWM-1 – Firewall Services Module for Catalyst 6500/7600
The Cisco WS-SVC-FWM-1 is a high-performance Firewall Services Module (FWSM) designed for Cisco Catalyst 6500 switches and 7600 Series routers. It delivers integrated, stateful, and virtualized firewall protection with support for up to 1 million concurrent connections, ideal for large-scale enterprise and service provider networks.
Throughput: Up to 5.5 Gbps
Concurrent Sessions: Up to 1,000,000
New Connections per Second: Up to 100,000
NAT Sessions: Up to 256,000
VLAN Support: Up to 1,000 VLANs (256 per context)
Packet Rate: Approx. 2.8 million packets per second
Virtual Contexts: Up to 250 virtual firewalls (licensing required)
Form Factor: Slot-based module for Catalyst 6500/7600 chassis
Hot-Swappable: Yes
Key Features:
Integrated stateful Layer 2–4 firewall
Multi-context support for virtual firewall instances
Hardware-accelerated NAT, PAT, and ACL processing
High Availability (HA) support – intra- and inter-chassis
Full support for IPSec VPN, VLAN filtering, logging, and policy enforcement
Centralized management via CLI or Cisco management tools
Benefits:
High Security Integration: No need for external firewalls
Scalable Architecture: Up to 4 modules per chassis, scaling to 20 Gbps