Key Features and Benefits

Availability

• Quickly identifies failures at any point along the application or transaction path and reacts proactively
• Hundreds of pre-defined health checks are instantly accessible (after installation), ensuring quick server/application availability and lowering total cost of ownership

• Prevents application session disruptions
• Ensures transaction completion

• AppDirector's extensive health monitoring capabilities enables real-time detection of any faulty AppXcel™ service, automatically bypassing it and switching traffic to available AppXcel service platform and guaranteeing full availability of all AppXcel's service engines

• Prevents the introduction of a single point of failure
• Seamless device redundancy with VRRP support
• Protects hardware investment and lowers total cost of ownership

• Automatically redirects traffic to best available instances, servers and farms in the data center or between redundant sites for optimal user experience
• Optimizes the use of existing applications and server resources and cost effectively scales resources, fully protecting server investment
• IPv6 network support including full IPv4/IPv6 gateway functionality

• Solves the problems of DNS-only solutions for the creation of real global networks with maximum uptime and optimized service delivery
• Guarantees transaction completion and fast response times across multiple data centers to support business continuity and disaster recovery plans
• Patented proximity and load measurement for best site selection

Performance Acceleration

• Accelerates delivery of SSL-based transactions
• Reduces latencies of transmission control protocol (TCP) and "chatty" HTTP
• Improves transaction speeds and bandwidth consumption to provide immediate return on investment
• Improves response times by fetching content from local cache (rather than server)

• Eliminates Web application latencies across the WAN
• Automatically detects and employs pre-configured compression to align content size with end-user device capabilities (e.g., access speed, display resolution, etc.), accelerate content delivery for any user type (e.g., PDA, Smart-phone, broadband) and reduce image size by up to 1000%
• Enables faster downloads and shorter response time through Web compression (average file compression ratio is 4 to 5 times [20%- 25%] of its original size)
• Optional hardware-based compression card ensures optimal content delivery and bandwidth savings through compression of text (HTTP/HTTPS) and images (.jpeg)

• Offloads high-throughput secure socket layer (SSL) encryption from servers while ensuring continuous SSL service availability and transaction completion
• Consolidates or reduces server utilization and operation costs up to 40%
• Reduces server load by fetching content from local cache (rather than server)

• 80% savings in bandwidth costs (in proportion to the compression ratio)
• Fully compatible with all commercial browsers; no client-side software or hardware required
• Supports all commercial Web servers

• Aligns bandwidth usage to meet business objectives
• Provides administrators with the necessary tools to streamline enforcement of bandwidth management policies
• Guarantees bandwidth allocation for latency-sensitive and mission-critical applications, as well as premium users, through the use of QoS algorithms

Security

• Protects a wide range of applications from malicious exploits, infiltration by worms and other threats, keeping servers, databases and applications up and running, even when under attack
• 1500 attack signatures out-of-box for wide application protection
• Bandwidth management mechanism can squelch malicious traffic to ensure availability for critical applications
• 24×7 Security Operations Center (SOC) provides subscribers with automated security updates

• Protects applications and servers from known and zero-day DoS attacks with behavior-based technology (18 seconds from attack detection to attack mitigation)

• The only application front-end solution with Common Criteria Level 3 certification

Application Delivery

• Application delivery performance leadership at all throughput levels
• State-of-the-art hardware architecture

• Scalable, on-demand throughput to meet business growth
• Easily add application services to meet new or changing application and infrastructure requirements
• Ready-made for advanced application-aware services without compromising performance (e.g. Application Performance Monitoring, Bandwidth Management, Intrusion Prevention, Denial of Service protection)

• Eliminates forklift upgrades – project costs associated with testing, staging, reinstalling and debugging are removed
• Hassle-free upgrade – configuration changes are not required during upgrade, resulting in no downtime
• Extends product life – use of same platform significantly lowers total cost of ownership (TCO)

• Improved manageability and easy maintenance
• Standard, unified platform at all throughput levels – reduces operations and training overhead, configuration diversity and need for spare units

• Adapt the ADC's configuration automatically and in real-time to virtual infrastructure configuration changes
• Guarantee the full availability and maximum performance of virtualized applications by preventing configuration errors, eliminating scripting and reducing risk