Radware said that its Alteon 5224 application delivery controller (ADC) for enterprises delivers new levels of performance, on demand throughput scalability, and port density for its class, while offering 10GE connectivity and ADC virtualization capabilities. Meeting the challenges of load balancing and advanced application delivery services, the Alteon 5224 features the ability to scale up to 16 Gbps using the same platform and offers 10GE ports as well as two built-in 10GE SFP+ ports. The platform is shipped with two embedded virtual ADC instances (vADC) that can be expanded on-demand to support up to 24 fully-independent vADCs. ”Companies running mission-critical applications need to cost-effectively and flexibly scale to ensure connectivity to today’s and tomorrow’s switching infrastructure, as well as assure their application high resilience, fast performance and scalability needs,” said Nir Ilani, director, product marketing, Application Delivery at Radware. ”The Alteon 5224 advanced ADC platform provides a complete set of application delivery services that ensure the availability, performance and security for applications – while topping any other alternative ADC on the market