Radware (Nasdaq; RDWR), a global leader in Intelligent Traffic Management (ITM) solutions that bring certainty to dynamic networks, today announced the release of Peer Director - the industry's first ITM device that dynamically manages Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) and Juniper (Nasdaq: JNPR) IP Backbone traffic.
Radware's Peer Director introduces innovative traffic management capabilities in multi-homed network environments that utilize Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) - the most common method of connecting disparate backbone networks across the Internet. Radware's Peer Director gathers and analyzes real time statistics associated with Internet traffic carried on multiple links. Based on these statistics and in conjunction with customizable user-defined policies, Peer Director redistributes and optimizes traffic loads between the links through multiple sophisticated load balancing algorithms that are proprietary to Radware. Network administrators no longer need to manually monitor the availability of routers and ISP links. Peer Director automatically and dynamically achieves link optimization by redirecting users to the healthiest link, thereby avoiding traffic congestion that often plagues BGP routing schemes. Users benefit from improved performance and cost-efficient Internet service.
"As Internet access becomes increasingly mission critical, the number of enterprises that utilize BGP continues to grow. Route traffic management is an important trend as it improves Internet performance, and drastically cuts IT overhead and administration costs," said Lawrence Orans, Senior Analyst, Gartner, Inc. "Controlling Internet routing will enable companies that deploy BGP to provide high availability and link optimization in multi-homed environments by enforcing policies on traffic redirection across various Internet links."
Border Gateway Protocol is the industry standard protocol used to exchange routing information across the Internet. BGP maintains routing tables, transmits routing updates and bases routing decisions on predefined metrics. It does not, however, take into account any performance or delay information, which traditionally results in inefficient traffic routing and Service Provider link utilization. Radware's Peer Director is designed to eliminate manually operated traffic distribution by dynamically updating Juniper and Cisco high speed routers, to optimize each available link. Enterprises save bandwidth costs and attain a greater control over their multiple Internet connections.
"Radware is again the first company in the market to introduce an innovative traffic management product that will result in tremendous cost savings and improved performance for enterprise and carrier customers," said Roy Zisapel, President and CEO of Radware. "This is achieved through customized traffic redirection based on cost and utilization parameters, coupled with enforcing the customer policies on its bandwidth usage."
Radware's vision extends further as the company also addresses link traffic management with LinkProof, its award winning Internet link traffic management solution. LinkProof intelligently load balances and manages multiple ISP connections and ensures the fastest inbound and outbound content delivery. Radware now offers the most comprehensive and flexible solutions for multi-homed environments. Enterprises and ISPs working with or without BGP and connected with a single or multiple routers can use Radware to ensure cost efficient, quality Internet service.
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Radware's suite of Intelligent Traffic Management (ITM) products are designed to optimize the end user experience by eliminating network uncertainty and downtime. Radware's product line combines proprietary next generation application switching technology and open architecture with the industry's leading proven traffic management software. Radware offers a broad range of customized ITM solutions to corporate enterprises, service providers, and e-commerce businesses through the implementation of one or more award winning ITM solutions, including: 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