Alteon ADC Solution Data Sheet

Radware’s Alteon ADC solution provides advanced and comprehensive application delivery capabilities to

meet application deployment and application delivery challenges in today’s data centers. Equipped with

advanced application acceleration capabilities, global server load balancing solution and a comprehensive

layer 7 modification tool, Alteon ADC is well positioned as the leading ADC in the industry. It also spearheads

the ADC virtualization trend with ADC-VX™, the industry’s first ADC virtualization and consolidation platform

based on a specialized ADC hypervisor, and Alteon Virtual Appliance (Alteon VA™).

The Most Comprehensive ADC SolutionRadware’s Alteon ADC solution delivers a complete set of services to ensure the availability, performance and security of the mission critical applications in the data center. Application aware traffic redirection capabilities – including content switching, session persistency and advanced server health monitoring – combined with Denial-of-Service mitigation and SYN flood protection guarantee the application availability under any circumstances. To ensure complete business continuity, Alteon ADC also offers a multi-site global server load balancing solution.

Alteon ADC offers a unique set of application acceleration and performance enhancements to meet the most demanding SLA and performance requirements of mission critical applications. All while ensuring best quality of experience (QoE) for application users and significant cost reduction of the application delivery solution.

Integrated Application Acceleration Capabilities Alteon ADC delivers a wide set of advanced 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 and enhance response time for best userQoE.

By offloading processor intensive operations such as SSL decryption and encryption from the applications servers, Alteon ADC frees the servers’ CPUs to handle additional requests. This results in reduced application server hardware and lower CAPEX.

When Alteon ADC is deployed with mission critical applications users, partners and employees benefit from best QoE and fastest response time of the applications. The result is improved productivity and increased revenues. For example, when operating Alteon ADC with Microsoft SharePoint, 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.

ADC VirtualizationAlteon ADC is the first solution to offer ADC virtualization with ADC-VX, the ADC virtualization and consolidation platform based on a specialized ADC hypervisor. ADC-VX is built on a unique architecture that virtualizes the resources of Alteon ADC platform including CPU, memory, network and acceleration resources. This specialized hypervisor runs virtual ADC instances (vADCs) where each delivers full ADC functionality. Each virtual ADC instance contains a complete and separated environment of resources, OS, configurations and management.

ADC-VX is the ultimate ADC consolidation platform, enabling organizations to consolidate ADC hardware devices without compromising resiliency or performance predictability of ADC services. Radware’s ADC-VX offers the highest consolidation ratio in the industry, with a ratio of 28:1 on Alteon ADC series 5 and 480:1 on Alteon ADC series 10. The result is higher savings of hardware and operational expenses as well as faster ROI when compared to any other consolidation solution in the industry.

vADC per ApplicationHigh vADC density and a wide throughput range with ADC-VX (1-80Gbps) allow organizations to adopt vADC per application, an innovative and very cost effective ADC deployment model. By allocating a separate, fully-isolated vADC instance for each application, businesses can maximize application availability thanks to fault isolation mechanism, and meet application SLA requirement with a resource reservation mechanism.

Moreover, this deployment model simplifies operations by maintaining a separate, simpler configuration file per each application, and increases business agility with fast roll out of new vADCs and applications. With vADC per application, the cost of application delivery is significantly reduced compared to traditional ADC deployment models.

Shaped To Deliver ApplicationsRadware’s AppShape™ technology is designed to accelerate and optimize application deployment on the ADC. AppShape offers configuration templates for leading business applications that help users set and configure all required ADC options in a user friendly format. The result is faster application rollout and optimized performance of the ADC for thespecific application.

AppShape allows an application-centric view including management screens, reports, logs and compliance – resulting in simplified and efficient application management in the ADC. In addition, AppShape drives business agility through auto-discovery of application resources changes and automatically synchronizes them to the ADC – with no human intervention. With AppShape, the Alteon ADC solution provides maximum value for each business critical application in terms of availability, performance and security.

Maximize Business Continuity Locally and Across Multiple SitesBusiness reputation, productivity and profitability depend on 24x7 business-application and Web site/portal availability. Radware’s Alteon ADC guarantees absolute uptime and effective disaster recovery for local and globally dispersed applications at all times. This means guaranteed transaction completion with a resilient solution that performs real-time identification and bypassing of any faulty element (such as application failure, server failure, server farm failure and even site failure) along the transaction path.

Intelligently Embedding Radware’s ‘On Demand’ Strategy Radware’s OnDemand Switch® with its “pay-as-you-grow” approach allows organizations to pay only for the exact capacity currently required This prevents over-spending on the initial solution, while benefiting from top performance of high-end platform and best in class response time. Throughput capacity, vADC instances, acceleration capabilities and application-aware services can be added on demand to meet new business requirements – with no forklift upgrade or restart of the device.

The “pay-as-you-grow” approach enables organizations to overcome capacity planning challenges and reduces the risk associated with data center growth for best investment protection. Additionally, Radware exclusively provides a 5-year platform longevity guarantee, which results in extended project lifetime and accelerate ROI.

Alteon ADC PlatformsRadware Alteon ADC is powered by state-of-the-art, custom-designed hardware platforms and offers the widest throughput range in the industry, from 500Mbps to 80Gbps. With Radware’s OnDemand strategy, each Alteon platform covers multiple throughput levels covered with aminimal set of platforms. This helps organizations standardize hardware solutions and reduce OPEX of spare parts and inventory. In addition, Radware’s Alteon ADC offers performance leadership at every throughput level with its unique software architecture and powerful platforms hardware.

Alteon series 5 and series 10 platforms support ADC virtualization with the highest vADC density in the industry, allowing organizations to consolidate legacy ADC devices and adopt a deployment model of vADC per application. Only Radware Alteon ADC virtualization solution starts at 1Gbps and ranges up to 80Gbps, enabling consolidation and virtualization of any application in the organization.

Alteon VA is a fully-functional ADC solution packaged as a virtual appliance running on server virtualization infrastructure. It provides identical functionality to Alteon physical ADC devices including local and global server load balancing, Layer 7 capabilities and application acceleration.

Summary of Radware’s Alteon ADC platforms

Platform Throughput Levels (Gbps) vADC Density

Alteon 4408 0.5, 1, 2, 4 Not applicable

Alteon 4416 1, 2, 4 Not applicable

Alteon 5224 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 14 24

Alteon 5412 8, 12, 16, 20 28

Alteon 10000 20, 40, 60, 80 120 per blade total of 480

About RadwareRadware, the global leader in integrated application delivery solutions, assures the complete availability, performance and security of business-critical applications for nearly 10,000 enterprises and carriers worldwide. With Radware’s comprehensive and award-winning suite of products, companies can drive business productivity, improve profitability, and reduce IT operating and infrastructure costs by making their networks “business-smart.”

Certainty SupportRadware offers technical support for all of its products through the Certainty Support Program. Each level of the Certainty Support Program consists of four elements: phone support, software updates, hardware maintenance, and on-site support. Radware also has dedicated engineering staff that can assist customers on a professional services basis for advanced project deployments.

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