The Application Switch 2000 (2208 2216 2424 and 2424-SSL) and 3000 (3408) series are multi-application switching systems that perform wire-speed Layer 2/3 switching and high-performance Layer 4-7 intelligent traffic management. In addition the 2424-SSL has an integrated Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Accelerator blade that off-loads multi-layer security functions to protect networks and applications without impacting overall switch performance. The Application Switch attaches to network backbones and interconnects servers using 10/100 and 1000BaseT Mbps (supported only on 3000 series) Base-T and Gigabit Ethernet connections. This flexibility off-loads server-to-server traffic from the backbone frees backbone bandwidth and accelerates client-server performance.