Advantage of 6500 IDS blade over standalone IDS

[NAVIN PARWAL]

Folks,

I am trying to convince my boss to buy the 6500 blade IDS rather than regular IDS from cisco. Any good points to back my point???

their is a huge price difference, does anyone know why?

Thanks

[umedryk]

IDS blade does not support all the signatures, it has a limitation over the performance as well, compared to the IDS appliance.