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, is pleased to announce that Credit du Nord, one of France's largest banking network with over 600 branches, has implemented a global load balancing and high availability solution by Radware. Credit du Nord deployed Radware's Fireproof and Web Server Director (WSD), both guaranteeing a fault tolerant network 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Three Fireproofs were implemented within the network infrastructure of Credit du Nord to monitor the traffic passing through the layers of firewalls. FireProof is the only firewall traffic management solution designed to provide high availability and fault tolerance for security firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions. Capable of intelligently distributing traffic between up to 100 firewalls, FireProof provides Credit du Nord's network certainty by eliminating bottlenecks and single points of failure.
"Credit du Nord's administrators are specifically using FireProof's port rules feature as a key to follow and assign the firewall requests. This unique feature allows us to know exactly what traffic goes in and what goes out on an independent basis throughout the internal network. This also permits us to assign particular types of traffic to a specific firewall farm, thereby avoiding potential bottlenecks and single points of failure. The accesses to critical applications within our network are then, safe," Said Thierry Ravez, Network Administrator at Credit du Nord.
To be able to provide a continuous access to both Credit du Nord clients and internal users, seven Web Server Directors (WSD) were placed in front of their application server. This provides them with optimal performance and high availability. WSD offers high availability through extensive health monitoring at all layers (4-7), directing users only to healthy servers. As a result, Institutional and e-business servers behind the WSDs are load balanced to ensure Credit du Nord a fault tolerant network.
About Credit du Nord
The Credit du Nord Group is a federation of 8 regional Banks : Credit du Norf, Banque Courtois in the South West of France, Banque Kolb in Les Vosges, Banque Laydernier in Haute Savoie, Banque Lenoir et Bernard in Amiens, Banque Nuger in Auvergne, Banque Rhône Alpes and Banque Tarneaud in the Centre-West. More than 1 million clients from entrepreneurs, corporations, small and medium sized companies, individuals and national institutions are working with 8300 Credit du Nord employees throughout 607 agencies. The Credit du Nord Group is a subsidiary of Societe Generale (80%) and Dexia Group (20%). For more information please contact : http://www.creditdunord.fr.
About Radware
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.