Radware’s Alteon ADC solution provides the advanced, future-proof application delivery capabilities needed to effectively meet the challenges of application deployment and application delivery in today’s data centers. These capabilities include, delivering performance leadership in all layer 4-7 metrics, employing superior on-demand scalability, FastView™ result-driven acceleration, global server load balancing solutions, comprehensive layer 7 modification, AppShape™ and AppShape™++ technologies, extensive reporting options and 1GE/10GE connectivity options - Alteon ADC is the leading ADC in the industry. It also spearheads the ADC virtualization trend with ADC-VX™, the industry’s first ADC virtualization and consolidation platform based on a specialized ADC hypervisor, and Alteon Virtual Appliance (Alteon VA™).

The Most Comprehensive ADC SolutionRadware’s Alteon ADC solution delivers a complete set of services to ensure the availability, performance and security of mission critical applications in the data center. Application-aware traffic redirection capabilities including content switching, session persistency and advanced server health monitoring combined with Denial-of-Service mitigation and SYN flood protection guarantee the application availability under any circumstances. To ensure complete business continuity, Alteon ADC also offers a multi-site global server load balancing solution.

Alteon ADC integrates FastView, a unique Web Performance Optimization (WPO) technology, along with SSL acceleration, bandwidth management and other integrated application acceleration services to meet the most demanding SLA and performance requirements of mission critical applications, while ensuring best quality of experience for application users and a significant cost reduction of the application delivery solution.

Integrated Application Acceleration Capabilities Radware’s Alteon ADC delivers a wide set of advanced application acceleration capabilities including SSL offloading, web compression, caching, HTTP multiplexing and TCP optimization. These capabilities are designed to offload servers, address server performance issues and enhance response-time for the best quality of experience. By offloading processor intensive operations such as SSL decryption and encryption from the applications servers, Alteon frees the servers’ CPUs to handle additional requests. This results in reduced application servers hardware and lower CAPEX.

Radware’s FastView™ result-driven acceleration technology adds Web Performance Optimization (WPO) capabilities in addition to the standard application acceleration features, in order to deliver the fastest Web application response time. FastView delivers the best business impact for increased revenues and higher customer loyalty for all browsers and end-user device types and is measureable with full reports and analytics.

When Alteon ADC is deployed with mission critical applications; users, partners and employees benefit from the best quality of experience and fastest response time of the applications, resulting in improved productivity and increased revenues. For example, when operating Alteon ADC with Microsoft SharePoint, the response time of SharePoint servers is accelerated by 350% and the servers’ CPU load is reduced by 40%. Similar benefits are achieved with other popular applications.

Alteon ADC Solution Data Sheet

ADC VirtualizationRadware’s Alteon ADC is the industry’s first solution to offer ADC virtualization due to its renowned ADC-VX. The ADC virtualization and consolidation platform is based on a specialized ADC hypervisor. ADC-VX is built on a unique architecture that virtualizes the resources of the Alteon ADC platform including CPU, memory, network and acceleration resources. This specialized hypervisor runs virtual ADC instances (vADCs) where each delivers full ADC functionality. Each virtual ADC instance contains a complete and separated environment of resources, OS, configurations and management.

ADC-VX is the ultimate ADC consolidation platform, enabling organizations to consolidate their ADC hardware devices without compromising resiliency or performance predictability of their ADC services. Radware’s ADC-VX offers the highest consolidation ratio in the industry, with a ratio of 28:1 on Alteon Series 5 and 256:1 on Alteon Series 10. The result is increased savings of hardware and operational expenses as well as faster ROI when compared to any other consolidation solution in the industry.

vADC per Application or ServiceHigh vADC density on Radware’s Alteon ADC platforms and a wide throughput range of ADC-VX solution (1-80Gbps) allows organizations to employ a vADC instance per their need – be it a specific application, department or even an application rollout stage (such as QA, staging, production, etc.). This innovative and very cost effective ADC deployment model allows to allocate a separate, fully-isolated vADC instance for each service, enabling businesses to maximize their application availability and meet application SLA requirements due to a fault isolation and resource reservation mechanism. Moreover, this deployment model simplifies operations by maintaining a separate, simpler configuration file per each service and increases business agility with a fast roll out of new vADCs and applications. With a vADC per service, the cost of application delivery is significantly reduced compared to traditional ADC deployment models.

Shaped To Deliver ApplicationsRadware’s AppShape™ technology is designed to accelerate and optimize an applications deployment on the ADC. AppShape offers configuration templates for leading business applications that help users set and configure all the required ADC options in a user friendly format. The result is a faster application rollout and optimized performance of the ADC for the specific application.

AppShape allows the application to be managed from an application-centric view including management screens, reports, logs and compliance – resulting in simplified and efficient application management in the ADC. In addition, AppShape drives business agility through auto-discovery of application resource changes and automatically synchronizing them to the ADC with no human intervention. Using AppShape, the Alteon ADC solution provides maximum value for each business critical application in terms of availability, performance and security.

In addition, Radware’s AppShape++ technology delivers scripting capabilities that allows customization of the ADC service per specific application flow and scenario. By leveraging the scripts examples library, customers can use AppShape++ to refine various layer 4-7 policies including HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, UDP, SSL and more – with no application modifications to reduce cost and risk.

Maximize Business Continuity Locally and Across Multiple SitesBusiness reputation, productivity and profitability depend on 24/7 business-application and Web site/portal availability. Radware’s Alteon ADC guarantees absolute uptime and effective disaster recovery for local and globally dispersed applications at all times. This means guaranteed transaction completion with a resilient solution that performs real-time identification and bypassing of any faulty element (such as application failure, server failure, server farm failure and even site failure) along the transaction path.

Intelligently Embedding Radware’s ‘On Demand’ Strategy By embracing Radware’s “pay-as-you-grow” approach, customers pay only for the exact capacity currently required. This prevents over-spending on the initial solution, while benefiting from top performance of high-end platform and best in class response time. Throughput capacity, vADC instances, acceleration capabilities and application-aware services can be added on demand to meet new business requirements with no forklift upgrade of the device and without restarting it. The “pay-as-you-grow” approach enables organizations to overcome capacity planning challenges and reduce the risk associated with data center growth to ensure the best investment protection. Additionally, Radware exclusively provides a 5-year platform longevity guarantee which results in an extended project lifetime and accelerated ROI.

End-to-End Application Delivery Resource MonitoringEnsuring that applications receive all the resources to meet their expected SLA requires in-depth real time visibility into the utilization of the application delivery infrastructure.

Radware’s APSolute Vision provides centralized monitoring and reporting capabilities that deliver extensive historical information about applications’ resources status and utilization including connections, transactions, bandwidth consumed, memory and CPU utilization consumed vs. the amount allocated in the ADC infrastructure, and much more. All information is provided with a clear indication of thresholds boundaries which ensure straightforward tracking of the SLA of the application.

Furthermore, to make the monitoring function more efficient, Radware’s reports and dashboard employ a drilldown-able layered approach allowing to accumulate the information from across multiple ADC services (whether dedicated, virtualized or Soft ADC), highlighting potential bottlenecks across applications and the application delivery infrastructure, in real-time.

This layered approach coupled with historical reports, also simplifies the processes of resource planning and allocation per application, and enables fast root-cause analysis and instant resolution of potential problems throughout the entire application delivery infrastructure.

Complete Web Application Performance VisibilityRadware’s Application Performance Management enables the measurement and visualization of the performance and SLA of applications based on actual user traffic, to include real errors. It provides historical reports with a granular analysis based on user-defined SLA while measuring the delay per each application delivery chain segment including data center time, network latency and browser rendering time. Coupled with Radware’s ADC infrastructure monitoring solution, this powerful performance monitoring suite enables application administrators to ensure their applications continuously meet their SLA targets.

Performance Leadership Compared to the competition, Radware’s Alteon ADC offers the best performance in any layer 4-7 metric. As a result, it enables enterprises to address traffic growth, ensure fast application response time and meet application SLA in the 1-80Gbps throughput range at all times.

Alteon ADC PlatformsRadware’s Alteon ADC is powered by state-of-the-art, custom-designed hardware platforms and offers the widest throughput range in the industry, from 500Mbps to 80Gbps. With Radware’s OnDemand strategy, each Alteon platform covers multiple throughput levels and the entire throughput spectrum is covered with a minimal set of platforms. This helps organizations to standardize their hardware solutions and reduce OPEX of spare parts and inventory. In addition, Radware’s Alteon ADC offers performance leadership at every throughput level with its unique software architecture and powerful platforms hardware.

Alteon Series 5 and Series 10 platforms support ADC virtualization with the highest vADC density in the industry, allowing organizations to consolidate their legacy ADC devices and adopt a deployment model of vADC per Application. Only Radware’s Alteon ADC virtualization solution starts at 1Gbps and ranges up to 80Gbps, enabling consolidation and virtualization of any application in the organization.

Alteon 5224

Alteon 10000

Alteon 4408

PRD-ALT-ADC-DS-06-2012/10 - US

Alteon VA is a fully-functional ADC solution packaged as a virtual appliance running on server virtualization infrastructure. It provides identical functionality to Alteon physical ADC devices including local and global server load balancing, Layer 7 capabilities and application acceleration.

Summary of Radware’s Alteon ADC platforms

About RadwareRadware, the global leader in integrated application delivery solutions, assures the complete availability, performance and security of business-critical applications for nearly 10,000 enterprises and carriers worldwide. With Radware’s comprehensive and award-winning suite of products, companies can drive business productivity, improve profitability, and reduce IT operating and infrastructure costs by making their networks “business-smart.”

Certainty SupportRadware offers technical support for all of its products through the Certainty Support Program. Each level of the Certainty Support Program consists of four elements: phone support, software updates, hardware maintenance, and on-site support. Radware also has a dedicated engineering staff that can assist customers on a professional services basis for advanced project deployments.

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Platform Throughput Levels (Gbps) vADC Density

Alteon 4408 0.5, 1. 2, 4 Not applicable

Alteon 4416 1, 2, 4 Not Applicable

Alteon 5224 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 16 24

Alteon 5412 8, 12, 16, 20 28

Alteon 10000 20, 40, 60, 80 64 per blade, total of 256