This is a result of an outdated infrastructure trying to cope with ever increasing demand for more advanced content. So the CMGI company implemented Cisco CSS 11000 series content services switches to make high-bandwidth Web content delivery, such as multimedia movie clips from Comedy Central , faster and more reliable than possible with conventional technology. In addition to increased speed and reliability, the intelligent features of the Cisco CSS 11150 and 11800 content services switches products allows NaviSite to tie geographically disparate data centers together globally. By mapping content requests to servers in multiple data centers regardless of their location, companies are able to perform global redirection to mirrored sites, global load balancing, and localized personalization. The Internet was not designed to deliver the kind of content the Web contains today at the high number of hits each site regularly generates.
Cisco aims to change that.
The Cisco CSS 11150 and 11800 switches provide a front end for Web server farms or cache clusters, maximizing server resources and optimizing performance of Web caches. In a distributed Web site, Cisco CSS 11000 series switches perform comprehensive resource verification before routing user requests, ensuring they are directed to the location that has the best response time and the least load for the requested content. Together with Cisco, NaviSite is able to provide customers with a fast, secure, and dependable network infrastructure, built for the way the Web works. For the first time since the Web became the world's fastest growing medium, it has an infrastructure that can respond to the needs of the growing number of Web users who are impatient with slow Web pages and the unacceptable performance of overburdened Web servers. Our partnership with Cisco is key in realizing the goal of constant, global application availability.