Powered by state-of-the-art, custom-designed hardware platforms, the Alteon Application Switch ensures the best user experience and fastest response time for mission-critical applications, resulting in effective, continuous business operation. The Alteon 5412, targeting large data centers and carrier environments packed with four 10GE ports, supports up to 20Gbps of throughput capacity, 2.5 Million DNS queries per second, 535K Layer 4 and 300K Layer 7 Transactions per Second.
Alteon Application Switch provides breakthrough performance, advanced application acceleration capabilities and on demand scalability needed to effectively meet contemporary network and business needs. Specifically designed for the majority of enterprises and carriers that operate in dynamic, ever-changing environments and face diverse requirements, the Alteon Application Switch provides the extendable throughput they need from 0 to 80Gbps for unparalleled scalability, business availability and performance.
Powered by state-of-the-art, custom-designed hardware platforms, the Alteon Application Switch ensures the best user experience and fastest response time for your mission-critical applications, resulting in effective, continuous business operation.
The beating heart of the Alteon Application Switch is the Virtual Matrix Architecture (VMA), a one-of-a-kind technology that unleashes the power of Alteon's next-generation proprietary platforms. VMA is a fast, robust, and flexible architecture embedding multi-CPU and multi-core components, which leverages the entire system's capacity while providing the parallel performance of distributed processing resulting in linear layer 4-7 scalability.
Alteon Application Switch delivers a wide set of application acceleration capabilities including SSL offloading, web compression, caching, HTTP multiplexing and TCP optimization. These capabilities are designed to offload servers, address server performance issues, enhance response-time for best Quality of Experience (QoE) and mitigate security risks. By offloading processor intensive operations from servers, Alteon frees the servers' CPUs to handle additional requests, eliminating the need to buy additional hardware in order to support application processing requirements and reducing CAPEX and OPEX.
The Alteon Application Switch is validated and certified by leading application vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, IBM. When operating Alteon Application Switch with Microsoft SharePoint for example, the response time of SharePoint servers is accelerated by 350% and the servers' CPU load is reduced by 40%. Similar benefits are achieved with other popular applications.
Application acceleration capabilities have greater importance in virtual data centers where applications suffer from increased latency caused by virtualization infrastructure. Alteon reduces applications latency and improves QoE of virtual applications.
By embracing Radware's "Pay-as-you-Grow" approach, you only pay for the exact capacity currently required and prevent over-spending on the initial solution. Throughput capacity, acceleration capabilities and application-aware services can be added on demand to meet new business requirements - with no forklift upgrade of the device and without restarting it.
The "Pay-as-you-Grow" approach enables you to overcome capacity planning challenges and reduces the risk associated with data center growth for best investment protection. Thanks to platform standardization and simplicity, there are two platforms to cover all application needs resulting in fewer spare parts, and less training and operations, to dramatically reduce OPEX.
Radware exclusively provides Alteon customers with a 5-year platform longevity guarantee. This enables extending the Application Delivery project lifetime, which directly translates into reduced TCO and higher ROI.
Carrier-Grade Reliability
Alteon Application Switch Series 4-5 deliver carrier-grade reliability required by the most demanding carrier application environments. It features reliable, custom-made hardware coupled with embedded components providing high MTBF and dual AC/DC power supply configurations. It is NEBS ready, complies with the strictest regulations, and is certified by the most up-todate hardware and networking standards.
Guaranteed Availability & Secured Management
Alteon Application Switch Series 4-5 provide continuous guaranteed availability of remote management even under extreme utilization conditions. As the two redundant management ports use a separate, out-of-band management data path, the management traffic is not affected by the data traffic. For enhanced security, the management ports are isolated from the traffic ports. Moreover, the management ports can work in redundant mode for high availability1.
Enhanced Configuration
The Alteon Series 4-5 front-panel USB port allows for easy installation, recovery and upgrade of the software as well as configuration back-up for enhanced management. It also features a convenient LCD Panel for display of key performance statistics2.
A unique resource guarantee mechanism ensures that each virtual ADC instance is allocated dedicated resources for its operation. This way, every virtual instance can utilize only those resources for which it was specifically allocated, resulting in predictable performance and service level agreement (SLA) guarantee for each instance. This approach completely eliminates the risks of resource starvation even under the most challenging scenarios. For example, a flash crowd event on one of the virtual instances will not affect the performance of other instances.
Instant provisioning, decommissioning and resource reallocation of virtual instances running on top of the ADC-VX drives business agility by significantly shortening the deployment time of new applications and services in the virtualized data center. Radware's ADC-VX makes it easy to reallocate resources and distribute them across virtual ADC instances, adjusting their performance and functionality to meet changing business needs.
ADC-VX hypervisor assigns physical resources such as CPU, memory, network and acceleration resources to capacity units, which are allocated to the virtual ADC instances by a simplified resource abstraction mechanism. This automatic process eliminates complicated calculation and reduces human errors. In addition, the centralized management system and dashboard provide a real-time view of the virtual instances' health and resource utilization, resulting in a scalable solution that is simple to operate and manage.
Radware's ADC-VX ensures fast ROI achieved by significant CAPEX and OPEX reduction. With Radware's ADC-VX, the business needs less ADC hardware to support ADC requirements, reducing the operational costs of real estate, power, cooling and spare parts. Consequently, the ADC-VX significantly reduces product service costs compared to multiple dedicated ADC devices.
ADC-VX is a key component in Radware's VADI architecture which transforms computing resources, ADC and virtualization services into an integrated, agile and scalable Virtual Application Delivery Infrastructure (VADI). It is designed to bridge across the underlying hardware resources and to cater for the various application needs in terms of SLA and performance predictability while delivering maximal agility to the application delivery space. Radware VADI transforms standard application delivery infrastructure into a virtual application delivery control plane.
ADC-VX solution is built on Radware's Alteon NG platforms - our next-generation application delivery solution. It's the industry's only ADC built from the ground up to ensure application SLA at all times. Alteon NG innovatively leverages several next-generation services that are not available in any other ADC on the market.
Radware's Application Delivery Controller (ADC) Technology enables cloud and hosting businesses to offer scale-out, high-availability, health-monitoring and application acceleration services to their customers.
Traditional hosting and cloud infrastructures are required to offer their customers solutions to overcome challenges associated with the offpremise hosting of business applications and the subsequent lack of control over the compute infrastructure hosting these applications. Radware's solution enables providers to offer scale-out services and highly available application hosting and additional application performance services to their customers. In addition, it offers cloud burst, cloud disaster recovery and cloud based application developing and testing services to enhance the enterprise application lifecycle options.
Cloud computing is quickly becoming a common option for offering cost effective hosting services, effectively making computational power available for a much greater number of use cases and applications. However, the need for highly reliable, high performance service guarantees is not going away, further more with cloud technologies organizations are looking to find a way and improve the economics of compute while retaining the level of service they have gotten used to in their internal data centers. Cloud and hosting providers are challenged to offer their customers a hybrid approach in which high assurance and high economics merge.
Application Delivery in general and load balancing in particular are fundamental components of the hosted virtual application. Effectively, the systems composition that constructs applications running in virtually hosted or cloud infrastructures must use the load balancer as an integral component of the solution. Load balancers enable scaling out of cloud applications by adding virtual machines to an application, and build high-availability into applications by continuously healthmonitoring the virtual machines and forwarding traffic only to healthy ones. That being the case, it is a basic requirement for cloud providers to offer load balancing services as part of their overall infrastructure.
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