With the rapid growth of networking and the Internet, service provider and enterprise WAN networks are undergoing significant change. New service offerings, increasing volumes of data traffic, and the integration of data, voice, and video, require networks to scale to new levels in order to meet customer requirements. As the global leader in networking, Cisco continually brings new capabilities to service provider and enterprise customers to support these new requirements and enable networks to grow with the demands of network applications.??Flash Disks, an alternative to linear Flash memory, are Flash memory-based devices that can be used as file storage media in the PC card slots of Cisco routers and in the route switch module (RSM) used in the Catalyst family systems. Flash Disk is more flexible than linear Flash memory because Flash Disk has controller circuitry that allows it to emulate a hard disk, automatically map out bad blocks, and perform automatic block erasure. Further...