Cisco Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Services Module dramatically accelerates the performance and enhances the security of Web-enabled applications, providing comprehensive secure content networking while guaranteeing a swift and persistent customer experience. It accomplishes this by increasing the number of secure connections supported by a Web site by offloading the processor-intensive tasks related to securing traffic with the SSL protocol.SSL integration with the Cisco Content Switching Module (CSM) provides for a high-performance, scalable, and secure server load balancing solution by accelerating both encrypted and non-encrypted traffic while offloading resource-intensive functions from Web servers.