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Controller Makes Networks “Business-smart”

The AppDirector™ intelligent application delivery controller (ADC) enhances the delivery of applications over IP networks by bridging the gap between applications and the networks.

Radware combined its purpose-built multigigabit application switching hardware with the powerful capabilities of the company’s APSolute™ operating system “classifier” and “flow management” engine. The result – AppDirector – enables accelerated application performance; local and global server availability; and application security and infrastructure scalability for fast, reliable and secure delivery of applications over IP networks.

By optimizing server infrastructure resources and enabling seamless consolidation and high scalability, AppDirector drives productivity and return on investment. Deploying AppDirector with AppXcel™ expands the comprehensive set of application acceleration, optimization and security services provided by Radware’s Application Front End (AFE) solution.

Optimized Server Utilization and Application Performance

AppDirector uses advanced Layer 4-7 policies and granular application intelligence for end-to-end business-smart networking. AppDirector aligns server infrastructure operations with application front end requirements to eliminate

This assures application access, full application continuity and redundancy. AppDirector enables fine tuning of network behavior based on granular application-specific classification of packets to optimize traffic flows for a wide range of enterprise applications such as BEA, Citrix, Oracle, SAP and other web-based applications including support for VoIP, streaming media and secure LDAP applications.

Scalable Solution Meets Network Growth and Business Needs

AppDirector is powered by the innovative OnDemand Switch platform. This next generation platform provides superior scalability to meet evolving network and business requirements; It establishes a new price/performance standard for the industry. While delivering breakthrough performance at all throughput levels, only pay for the throughout level your business requires and easily upgrade to higher levels of throughput without replacing hardware or experiencing downtime.

Integrated Application-level Security

AppDirector’s comprehensive security capabilities provide

AppDirector’s fully integrated intrusion prevention and unique behavioral-based DoS protection insulates data center applications and server resources against application-level attacks and zero-day DoS attacks. In addition the ability to control multistep secure socket layer (SSL) processing provides enhanced security of HTTP, FTP and SMTP over SSL.

When AppDirector is used in conjunction with AppXcel, this combined AFE solution provides the industry’s most comprehensive security solution while eliminating traditional security/performance trade-offs. AppXcel’s add-on web application firewall (WAF) service provides unified and automated protection against known and unknown web application attacks worms, platform exploits and network attacks, ensuring secure and continuous on-line business activity.

Global Redirection for Faster Response Times

Radware’s innovative architectural approach to global re-direction is the only solution guaranteeing transaction completion and fast response times across multiple data centers in support of business continuity and disaster recovery plans. This solution, which is integrated with the local redirection module in the same box, includes

By solving the problems of DNS-only solutions, AppDirector lets customers create true global networks while ensuring maximum uptime and optimized service delivery to globally dispersed users.