Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR), the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced that Wawasan Open University (WOU) has successfully deployed Radware’s APSolute Application Delivery Controller (ADC) solution, combining AppDirector and LinkProof platforms, to build a business-smart network infrastructure for its distance learning network.
WOU serves students around the country who need to access the network at anytime from any where. Students and faculty require a reliable and high-performance network as an educational resource to support the learning and sharing of information. Faced with rapid growing network traffic and an ever-increasing demand for accelerated Internet response speed required by users, WOU turned to Radware in search of a high performance network infrastructure and network optimization tool.
“Our University relies heavily on the network to serve a vast and dispersed student population. The need for an infrastructure that ensures continuous remote accessibility to our mission critical applications is absolutely vital,” said Mr Peter Chan, Director of IT Services of WOU. “Radware's solution met our needs, because the combination of LinkProof and AppDirector platforms provides end-to-end availability and security for the University's servers and ISP links by eliminating bottlenecks while delivering 24/7 availability.”
Radware’s AppDirector uses advanced Layer 4-7 policies with advanced health checking capability based on HTTP and URL and granular application intelligence to eliminate traffic surges, server bottlenecks, connectivity disconnects and downtime to assure full application access, continuity and redundancy of WOU’s infrastructure. Radware’s LinkProof platform ensures non-stop link availability, load balancing and end-to-end application optimization for reliable and high performing enterprise multi-homing. It also prioritizes all link traffic for high quality (QoS) and guaranteed service levels for mission critical applications, in addition to cost effectively upgrading bandwidth to meet growth in connectivity requirements. The combination of these two products intelligently integrates availability, performance and security to control all traffic across networks at multi-Gigabit speed. This eliminates service vulnerabilities, security threats, and controlling bandwidth usage for complete continuity of educational applications and dramatically cut operating costs.
“Our innovative application delivery solution is designed to address a broad range of functions, which are crucial for business-smart networking. This enables our customers to focus more on their business priorities” said Yong Chuk Ping, Director of Asean, Radware, Singapore. “LinkProof’s ability to provide load balancing and high availability among ISPs has enabled WOU to deploy multiple ISPs and obtain positive ROI on network savings all whilst providing our students and faculty with the top-notch reliability and high-performance needed.”
About Radware
Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR), the global leader in integrated application delivery solutions, assures the full availability, maximum performance, and complete security of business-critical applications for more than 5,000 enterprises and carriers worldwide. With APSolute™, Radware's comprehensive and award-winning suite of intelligent front-end, access, and security products, companies in every industry can drive business productivity, improve profitability, and reduce IT operating and infrastructure costs by making their networks "business smart." For more information, please visit www.radware.com.
About Wawasan Open University
Wawasan Open University (WOU) is the Malaysia's first private, not-for-profit, open learning institution, providing a lifelong learning community without borders. Funded by charitable trusts, corporations and the public, with the aim to lower the personal cost of learning and make it more affordable. WOU uses flexible approaches to make higher education accessible to all - anytime, anywhere. Its self-paced learning environment is specially designed to create convenience and accessibility for adult learners of any age, gender, ethnicity and background.
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