Radware (NASDAQ; RDWR), the leading provider of Intelligent Application Switching (IAS), today announced the release of its next-generation hardware architecture platform – Application Switch III. This platform introduces an innovative three-tiered architecture that couples enhanced performance and power with 10Gb connectivity, providing businesses for the first time with a comprehensive solution for ensuring the integrity of applications carried over high-bandwidth networks. Application Switch III delivers Radware’s award-winning security, availability and reliability services at multi-gigabit speeds, bullet-proofing any IP or Web Service application running on the network.
“Radware introduced the world’s first Application Switch three years ago, and today’s release of Application Switch III raises the performance and throughput bar to a new level,” said Roy Zisapel, President and CEO of Radware. “Companies today must rely upon high-performance servers and networks operating at multi-Gigabit speeds to deliver application services that differentiate their business and give them an edge over their competition. Until now, these companies were faced with incredible hurdles as they tried to operate their infrastructure, increase quality of service, guarantee optimal performance and secure their applications in multi gigabit speeds. Now, Radware provides the only solution powerful enough to manage, accelerate and protect any application operating at any speed.”
Radware’s Application Switch III Differentiator
To deliver high-performance switching in high-bandwidth networks, Radware’s three-tiered architecture starts with high-port density and switching ASICs at the port level. This provides high capacity and wire speed switching over its 44Gb non-blocking back plane. Introducing yet another technology innovation, Radware is the first company to deploy a 10Gb port to layer 4-7 switching - in addition to Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet ports – providing users with the ability to accommodate any connectivity requirements.
Radware’s introduction of network processors in the second tier of the Application Switch III architecture delivers comprehensive traffic forwarding, quality of service control, real-time intrusion prevention and DoS mitigation at multi-gigabit speeds. The network processing technology incorporated into the Application Switch III architecture dramatically increases the performance of layer 4-7 switching while simultaneously enhances network control and security.
Meeting Customer Demand for High-Bandwidth Networks
"China Netcom provides a variety of broadband telecommunications services operating at Gigabit speeds. We need to constantly differentiate services while delivering extremely high throughputs,” said Ruan Hang, Senior Project Manager, China Netcom Corp. Beijing. “Radware's new Application Switch III platform will enable us to accomplish this while ensuring the best possible quality of service to all of our customers."
The third-tier in the Application Switch III architecture is the high-end CPU, which accelerates layer 4-7 load balancing decisions and traffic redirection to levels never before attainable by enabling extremely rapid deep-packet inspection, regardless of decision complexity or file size. This ensures the performance of highly intelligent and application aware load balancing and health monitoring decisions at shorter intervals, with no performance degradation.
“With application requirements constantly changing, network infrastructures continue to grow more complex and demanding,” said Zeus Kerravala, Research Director, Yankee Group. “Radware's new hardware platform provides layer 4-7 switching throughputs that will enable IP applications to perform at their maximum potential.”
Jaemo Seong, Team Leader of Information Security at Dacom said, "As we progress from our position as the top Internet enterprise in Asia to one of the premiere Internet enterprises in the world, we need a hardware platform we can rely upon. Radware's Application Switch III will enable us to deliver application security and Denial of Service protection at multi-Gigabit speeds, meeting our current and future needs."
Application Switch III Availability
Radware’s Application Switch III platform is available for immediate shipment. For further information, contact Radware at www.radware.com.
About Radware
Radware is dedicated to providing Intelligent Application Switching, guaranteeing the best operation and servicing of IP applications and enterprise traffic across the Internet. Radware aligns application needs with the network infrastructure to seamlessly allocate resources, optimize application operations and extend security, ensuring the integrity of critical business processes.
Radware’s solutions address the needs of corporate enterprises, service providers, and e-commerce business through one or more of our award winning products including: Web Server Director (WSD), Cache Server Director (CSD), FireProof, Content Inspection Director (CID), LinkProof, Peer Director, CertainT 100. Our comprehensive suite of products service end-to-end application operations, providing robust and scalable network traffic assurance. Get certain, from click to content, across your network -- with Radware. For more information, please visit us at www.radware.com.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, general business conditions in the Internet traffic management industry, changes in demand for Internet traffic management products, the timing and amount or cancellation of orders and other risks detailed from time to time in Radware’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Radware’s Form 20-F.
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