<P>The Catalyst 6000 Family delivers exceptional scalability and price/performance, supporting a wide range of interface densities, performance, and high-availability options. As a key component of Cisco Content Networking architecture, the Catalyst 6000 provides unprecedented business agility by enabling the enterprise to rapidly deploy new internet business applications in order to boost revenue and reduce operational costs. Coupled with application intelligence, quality-of-service (QoS) mechanisms and security, customers can more effectively leverage their network for increased client services such as multicast and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications without sacrificing network performance. Cisco Content Networking creates an Internet business ecosystem by delivering Internet business applications, such as e-commerce, supply-chain management, and workforce optimization, which integrate the enterprise with customers, suppliers and business partners. With CiscoAssure, network policy can be applied end to end based on Layer 2, 3, and 4 information such as specific users, IP addresses, or applications.</P>