Appendix B Deployment Examples
Use with the CSS
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Use with the CSS
Using the Secure Content Accelerator with the CSS allows Layer 4 load balancing
of the Secure Content Accelerator and Layer 5 routing and load balancing for
content decrypted by the Secure Content Accelerator. Four deployment scenarios
are recommended:
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In-Line
•
One-Armed Non-Transparent Proxy
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One-Armed Transparent Proxy
In-Line
Placing the Secure Content Accelerator in front of the CSS increases performance
of the server farm by offloading all SSL processing from the servers. The Secure
Content Accelerator is completely transparent to the CSS and servers.
This deployment is the simplest to configure because it requires no specific
inter-operational configuration on either the Secure Content Accelerator or the
CSS. However, the deployment provides a low level of scalability, based upon the
capacity of the CSS. An example deployment is shown in Figure B-3.
