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Controller Makes Networks “Business-smart”
The AppDirector™ intelligent application delivery controller (ADC) enhances the delivery of applications over IP networks by bridging the gap between applications and the networks.
Radware combined its purpose-built multigigabit application switching hardware with the powerful capabilities of the company’s APSolute™ operating system “classifier” and “flow management” engine. The result – AppDirector – enables accelerated application performance; local and global server availability; and application security and infrastructure scalability for fast, reliable and secure delivery of applications over IP networks.
By optimizing server infrastructure resources and enabling seamless consolidation and high scalability, AppDirector drives productivity and return on investment. Deploying AppDirector with AppXcel™ expands the comprehensive set of application acceleration, optimization and security services provided by Radware’s Application Front End (AFE) solution.
Optimized Server Utilization and Application Performance
AppDirector uses advanced Layer 4-7 policies and granular application intelligence for end-to-end business-smart networking. AppDirector aligns server infrastructure operations with application front end requirements to eliminate
- Traffic surges
- Server bottlenecks
- Connectivity disconnects
- Downtime
This assures application access, full application continuity and redundancy. AppDirector enables fine tuning of network behavior based on granular application-specific classification of packets to optimize traffic flows for a wide range of enterprise applications such as BEA, Citrix, Oracle, SAP and other web-based applications including support for VoIP, streaming media and secure LDAP applications.
Scalable Solution Meets Network Growth and Business Needs
AppDirector is powered by the innovative OnDemand Switch platform. This next generation platform provides superior scalability to meet evolving network and business requirements; It establishes a new price/performance standard for the industry. While delivering breakthrough performance at all throughput levels, only pay for the throughout level your business requires and easily upgrade to higher levels of throughput without replacing hardware or experiencing downtime.
Integrated Application-level Security
AppDirector’s comprehensive security capabilities provide
AppDirector’s fully integrated intrusion prevention and unique behavioral-based DoS protection insulates data center applications and server resources against application-level attacks and zero-day DoS attacks. In addition the ability to control multistep secure socket layer (SSL) processing provides enhanced security of HTTP, FTP and SMTP over SSL.
When AppDirector is used in conjunction with AppXcel, this combined AFE solution provides the industry’s most comprehensive security solution while eliminating traditional security/performance trade-offs. AppXcel’s add-on web application firewall (WAF) service provides unified and automated protection against known and unknown web application attacks worms, platform exploits and network attacks, ensuring secure and continuous on-line business activity.
Global Redirection for Faster Response Times
Radware’s innovative architectural approach to global re-direction is the only solution guaranteeing transaction completion and fast response times across multiple data centers in support of business continuity and disaster recovery plans. This solution, which is integrated with the local redirection module in the same box, includes
- Patented proximity and load measurement for best site selection
- Widest range of redirection methods (DNS, HTTP, RTSP, SIP and patented global triangulation redirection) which guarantees session persistency and transaction completion
- Patented triangulation redirection provides global redirection for any IP-based service
By solving the problems of DNS-only solutions, AppDirector lets customers create true global networks while ensuring maximum uptime and optimized service delivery to globally dispersed users.
QoS Bandwidth Management and Traffic Shaping Determine Priorities
AppDirector supports a variety of bandwidth management and traffic-shaping capabilities to enforce Quality of Service (QoS) policies. These rules ensure that all network elements provide the required priority to specific application or user traffic so service level agreements (SLAs) can be met, with latency-sensitive and business-critical applications receiving priority.
- Automatic application discovery for over40 common enterprise applications plus support for user-defined classes provides administrators with full visibility on application’s bandwidth consumption, streamlining enforcement of bandwidth management policies.
- Diversified set of QoS algorithms including RED/WRED/WFQ and class-based queuing (CBQ) guarantees bandwidth allocation for premium users and critical applications, and end-to-end bandwidth management and policy enforcement.
- Bandwidth management per user/sessionallows setting granular policies that control bandwidth consumption of each and every user within a class of traffic, without setting individual policies.
- Hierarchal bandwidth management gives administrators a powerful and flexible tool for dynamic bandwidth allocation in complex environments.
Insite Centralized Management and Reporting
Radware’s Insite provides the management interface for all APSolute products, including AppDirector. Insite provides centralized multidevice application and SSL management using an intuitive GUI interface. This lets network administrators proactively monitor networks and quickly detect, isolate and resolve problems before they impact your business.