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Cisco Global Site Selector 4491 Hardware Installation Guide
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Introduction
This chapter provides a basic functional overview of the Cisco Global Site
Selector 4491 (GSS) and describes the hardware, major components, and front
and rear panel indicators and controls.
This chapter contains the following major sections:
• Introduction
• System Hardware Features
• Ports and Connectors
Introduction
The GSS is a networking product that provides site selection services that are
critical for disaster recovery deployments involving Internet and intranet data
centers. The GSS globally load balances traffic between geographically
distributed data centers managed by other server load balancers (SLBs), such as:
• Cisco CSS 11500, CSS 11000, or CSS 11150
• Cisco Content Switching Module (CSM) for the Catalyst 6500 series
switches
• Cisco LocalDirector
• Cisco IOS SLB