Key Features and Benefits

• Use cost-effective links for redundancy without suffering reliability penalty
• Quickly identify failures at any point along the application or transaction path and react proactively
• Automatically redirect inbound and outbound traffic to available wide area network (WAN) paths of your data center

Active-active Link Redundancy

• Take full advantage of back-up link bandwidth
• Keep spare links available for immediate failover

• Prevent the introduction of a single point of failure in a high-availability architecture
• Protect your hardware investment and lower total cost of ownership (TCO)

Business-smart Routing

• Decide which traffic is routed over which WAN links based on any Level 4–7 parameter or application type
• Create flexible, scalable distributed architectures and deploy applications over existing distributed architectures
• Gradually migrate from legacy to new WAN links or quickly fall back if needed
• Eliminate need for complex border gateway protocol (BGP) routing configurations

Comprehensive Device, Link,and Application Path Management

• Simple device configuration
• Application-aware policy set-up
• Health, performance and utilization monitoring and reporting

Inbound and Outbound Proximity-based Routing

• Minimize access time to web sites and extranet applications hosted at the data center
• Minimize internal users’ access time to critical external Internet resources
• Reduce WAN traffic volume

Inbound and Outbound Link Load
Balancing

• Dynamically make the most of existing, available bandwidth based on changing business and technical priorities
• Bypass temporary WAN bottlenecks for both inbound and outbound traffic

Bandwidth Management and Traffic Shaping

• Ensure that top-priority and business critical applications always receive the bandwidth they need
• Prevent non-critical Internet usage (i.e., peer-to-peer usage)
• Protect latency-sensitive applications from bottlenecks
• Control Quality of Service (QoS) levels