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Customer Profile
Alteon Web Switches are an ideal solution for
Enterprises, Hosting Providers, Content Providers,
e-Businesses and Service Providers that require a
high performance switching solution for high-traffic
IT Data Centres, network and hosting
infrastructures.
Typical Applications
In order to provide the intelligence, scalability and
resilience to any web site, Alteon Web Switches offer
a raft of applications that are leveraged using the
feature rich WebOS.
These applications include:
• Server Load Balancing
• Global Server Load Balancing
• Web Cache Redirection
• Application Redirection (including SSL)
• Bandwidth Management
• Content Intelligent Load Balancing
• Firewall Load Balancing
• High Availability
• Streaming Media Load Balancing
• Intrusion Detection Load Balancing
• Wireless Load Balancing
• VPN Load Balancing
• Domain Name Service Layer-7 Load Balancing
Key Points
• The Alteon Web Switch is without doubt the
industry leader in performance, functionality,
scalability and reliability when it comes to
Content Switching.
• The Alteon Web Switch uses a distributed
architecture to ensure that all processor intensive
intelligent decisions are off loaded evenly across
the 20 RISC processors.
• The feature rich WebOS not only
performs standard Content Switching but
also allows for advanced applications such
as Firewall Load Balancing, Application
Redirection, Wireless access and full RTSP
Streaming support.
• The switch is without doubt an easy to mange
and robust device that is deployed in some of the
most mission critical and highly accessed
sites today.
• The integrated security functions enhance the
overall security of the connected networks: Layer-
7 Deny filter, Denial Of Service Attack Detection
and –prevention,TCP rate-limiting and enhanced
Port Mirroring.
Alteon Web Switches
Alteon Web Switches
Overview
The Alteon Web Switch series are industry leading content switches designed specifically to meet the needs of
demanding businesses, delivering Layer 2 and 3 switching, plus advanced Layer 4 through 7 processing with
full wire-speed throughput on every port. Coupled with the award winning WebOS the Alteon Web Switch
Series offers local and global server load balancing, application redirection, non-server (eg firewall, router, etc)
load balancing, active-active high availability configurations, bandwidth management, class of service and
server security services. With up to nine 10/100/1000Mbps ports each with 2 RISC processors and up to 4Mb of
memory, blazing speed and intelligent switching are easily achieved.