Cisco last month gave customers a sneak peek at a new network management tool for deploying multiple network functions on the Catalyst 6500 platform. Cisco last month gave customers a sneak peek ...

ACE — a multifunction blade ... 6500 platform — uses logical partitioning to create as many as 250 virtual instances of Cisco’s server load balancing, application delivery, and application ...

And Cisco sells separate firewall and IPS security blades for its Catalyst 6500 switches, but those are higher-end devices with bigger performance numbers and bigger price tags. The TMS is powered ...