The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series ASA Services Module delivers superior technology that seamlessly integrates with Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches to provide unmatched security, reliability, and performance. Based on the Cisco ASA platform, the most widely deployed firewall in the industry, the ASA Services Module supports the highest throughput, five times the concurrent connections, and twice as many connections per second as competitive network security modules, to meet the growing needs of today's most dynamic organizations - all in a single blade architecture.