Alteon Web Switches

Key Features & Benefits:

• Provides wire-speed Layer 2/3 Ethernet switching, plus high-speed processing based on Layer 4 through 7 information (TCP ports, URLs, HTTP headers and cookies, SSL session ID, etc.)
• Processes hundreds of thousands of concurrent sessions each second on eight multi-rate Ethernet ports, (rate selectable per port), with one Gigabit or 100/1000 Mbps Ethernet uplink port
• Performs local and global server load balancing, application redirection, content filtering, streaming media load balancing, wireless Internet load balancing and content-aware Layer 7 switching
• Filters packets based on up to 2048 filtering rules (224 filtering rules for Alteon AD3/180e Web Switches), uniquely definable per switch and per port
• Meters, controls, and accounts for bandwidth use-by client, server farm, virtual service, application, user class, content type and other traffic classes-and supports guaranteed minimum, metered available, and maximum burst bandwidth rates