Alteon Application Switches

• Provides wire-speed Layer 2/3 Ethernet switching and high-performance Layer 4-7 switching (e.g., TCP ports, URLs, HTTP headers and cookies, SSL session ID) to enable sophisticated traffic control and management.
• Supports the broadest range of special-purpose services including load balancing and health checking of servers, VPNs, intrusion detection, LDAP, DNS, streaming media (RTSP), WAP, etc.
• Offers sophisticated health checking and load balancing algorithms, support for virtual IP addresses, and VRRP support to deliver business continuity by eliminating single points of failure.
• Performs various multi-layer security features to protect networks and applications. These include SSL Acceleration, SSL VPNs, security device load balancing (IDS, VPN, FW, etc.), packet filtering (up to 2,048 filtering rules), denial of service attack prevention, and protection from application abuse.
• Delivers the layer 4-7 performance and feature flexibility to identify and direct any application traffic. This includes optimized networks for demanding business applications such as;
  • VoIP
  • Web Services
  • Database applications
  • Wireless
• Provides the highest Layer 7 performance at 51,000 sessions/sec. (zero session loss) and supports up to two million concurrent sessions (Tolly Jan. 3. 2003).