Radware Alteon Application Switches
The new Alteon Application Switches feature performance leadership and on demand scalability coupled with sophisticated load balancing capabilities including filtering and traffic management provide optimised networks uncompromised performance and value.
Radware's Alteon Application Switches deliver application availability, performance and security by balancing and accelerating traffic and by giving IT Managers control over their network.
Alteon Application Switches integrate routing and switching by forwarding traffic at layer 2 speed using layer 4-7 information. They are designed from the ground up to optimise networks for application performance. Built around the patented, distributed processing Virtual Matrix Architecture, these switches provide uncompromising performance and value. With virtualization support, the Alteon Application Switch allows service providers to efficiently enable differentiated services for enterprise businesses.
Application switches are commonly used in server farms, data centers, web hosting sites or wherever availability, performance and security are required. Alteon Application Switches have been optimised to work with applications from leading vendors including Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, and SAP.
Key Features
- Up to 20Gbps of throughput capacity
- Increases productivity by optimising and accelerating applications
- Reduces infrastructure costs by allowing resources to be used to their fullest capacity
- Reduces downtime and loss of productivity by preventing denial of service attacks
- Provides high availability through instant fail-over when a server, site or WAN link becomes unavailable
- Puts IT back in control by identifying and managing application traffic and by providing extensive tools for application identification, prioritisation, redirection, rate limiting, and shaping
- Secures and accelerates traffic with integrated secure sockets layer (SSL) acceleration, multiplexing and compression
