Radware (Nasdaq: RDWR), a leading provider of Intelligent Traffic Management (ITM) solutions that bring certainty to dynamic networks, ensuring optimal, continuous, personalized and secure service, today announced Continental Airlines uses the Web Server Director Pro (WSD-Pro) product line to maintain a fault-tolerant environment for its server farms and to keep the company's 15 Web sites fast, consistent and fully operational 24x7.
As the fifth largest airline in the Unites States, with 2,300 daily flights to 138 domestic and 94 international destinations, Continental continues to achieve important milestones. The airline is highly regarded for having the best safety record and youngest fleet in the industry, and numerous publications and industry watchdog J.D. Powers & Associates report that Continental has the best customer satisfaction rating of all airlines. In keeping with the airline's high standards and proven track record, Continental relies on Radware technology to achieve maximum network performance for all of its Internet and intranet operations.
"Continental recognizes that customer satisfaction is as important online as it is face to face," said Mike Long, VP of marketing and technology at Radware Inc. "Deploying Radware's award-winning ITM devices with its e-business infrastructure helps Continental give its customers an optimal online experience from click to content."
Continental uses multiple Radware WSD-Pros to meet varying objectives. One objective is to provide employee access to Web-based e-mail and the Internet. Another is to provide redundant Ethernet paths for as many as 40 servers in Continental's farm. The WSD-Pros manage and redirect traffic for more than 120,000 daily hits to the www.Continental.com consumer Web site, Continental's secure internal employee Web site and for approximately 20 IP-based business applications used within the enterprise.
"One of the key features that sold me on Radware was that I did not have to change anything in my environment," said Andre Gold, technical director of Internet engineering for Continental Airlines. "All of the network configuration work is done on the WSD-Pro, and it was quite easy for me to train my technicians on the proper procedures."
The Radware WSD-Pros allow Continental network administrators to configure traffic redirection and management across both IP addresses and Ethernet segments, which is important for future growth of Continental's Web sites and intranets. The Radware solution makes it easy for Continental to add additional ITM devices and grow the size and number of server farms as necessary.
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Radware's suite of Intelligent Traffic Management (ITM) products is designed to optimize the end user experience by eliminating network uncertainty and downtime. Radware's product line combines its latest application switching technology and architecture with the company's industry proven traffic management software to help users keep their sites available 24 hours a day. Radware offers a broad range of ITM solutions to service providers, e-commerce businesses and corporate enterprises that require uninterrupted availability and optimal performance of IP-based applications. Users receive optimal, continuous, secure and personal service with the use of Radware's award-winning ITM solutions: Web Server Director, Cache Server Director, FireProof and LinkProof. Radware's Application Switches bring certainty to dynamic networks with products that guarantee the best service from click to content. Get certain with Radware. For more information, please visit us at www.radware.com or call 888-234-5763.