Cisco IOS Scalability Services Mission-critical activity over the network is on the rise. A scalable network is more important than ever on both the Internet and corporate intranets because new networked applications often with Web browser interfaces make networks easier to use.
More people are on the network, generating more traffic per user at an explosive rate.
Cisco takes scalability services beyond the conventional hardware approach of increasing bandwidth and port density. Tag Switching is highly scalable technology for improving performance over large enterprise networks or Internet service provider networks to speed delivery across large enterprise networks or the Internet. It provides high performance for switching and for higher-layer services such as quality of service, security, and traffic management. Express Forwarding is Cisco's new technique for scaling Internet backbones via distributed packet forwarding. It is one of the fundamental capabilities required for today's Internet routers and next-generation Internet routers to enable them to handle the increased load, dynamic traffic patterns, and new applications characteristic of the Internet.