Cisco also extended the range of intrusion sensors that it offers to reach the high end of performance. The new Cisco IDS 4250-XL Sensor is capable of handling 1 Gigabit per second throughput.

In addition, Cisco will upgrade the software for its PIX Firewall appliances and unveil a virtual private network accelerator card that it said should provide performance improvements of up to 400 ...

Exchange links -> router pair running HSRP -> IPS -> L2 Switches -> L3 routers -> firewall -> internal network. The L2 Switches immediately behind the IPS has multiple servers attached to them.