NetScaler



NetScaler

As the cornerstone of the Request Switch™ 9000 iON Series, NetScaler's Secure Application Gateway represents a new breed of Internet application infrastructure that uniquely combines application-level security, protection and optimization into a central point of web application traffic control. The result is a powerful complement to existing network infrastructures—enabling enterprises, e-businesses and service providers to ensure the cost-effective, continuous, secure delivery of business-critical web applications.

Your plans to deliver business-critical applications over the web should not be derailed by concerns over application security, availability, cost or slow end-user response times.

Now, for the first time ever, an affordable network infrastructure solution exists that can encrypt 100% of your application data, continuously serve users even during DDoS attacks and reduce your total cost of operations, all without diminishing the user experience.

When it comes to your web-based applications, there is only one true measure of a successful infrastructure: continuous availability. The Request Switch 9000 iON Series solves your availability issues by providing wire-speed protection against DDoS attacks, surges in legitimate traffic and application-level attacks that masquerade as legitimate. The Request Switch 9000 iON Series also has the unique ability to examine individual requests – empowering it to provide real-time intelligent blocking of site intrusion attempts, including worm attacks such as Nimda and Code Red.

These web application security capabilities, combined with NetScaler’s SureConnect™ technology and priority queuing capabilities, enable the Request Switch 9000 iON Series to guarantee an application response to users even when servers are at capacity or applications are experiencing processing delays, helping to maximize transaction completion and customer satisfaction. So you can be assured that your servers are up and your application is responding, even when demand for your application exceeds your planned capacity.

The NetScaler Request Switch 9000 iON Series helps ensure the end-to-end secure delivery of application requests by transparently offloading the CPU-intensive SSL encryption/decryption from local web servers, eliminating the processing bottleneck associated with secure applications. At the same time, the Request Switch 9000 iON Series is able to make intelligent application-level decisions for secure traffic, providing a performance advantage not available with any other SSL solution. And with 4,400 new SSL sessions per second, you can confidently rollout applications securely to your end users, customers, partners and workforce. If you require greater performance and throughput, an unlimited number of Request Switch 9000 systems can be clustered using any traffic manager, allowing you to scale SSL capacity to meet even the greatest demands for secure content.

In addition to providing unlimited SSL capacity, the Request Switch 9000 iON Series allows you to securely transmit your application data without compromising performance for end users. With features such as secure compression, client connection persistence and TCP protocol acceleration, you can protect, optimize and securely deliver your application – regaining end-to-end control of your users’ experience.

NetScaler’s revolutionary approach to web optimization extends your existing assets well beyond their current limitations, so you can do more with your existing infrastructure. Our breakthrough, patented Request Switching™ technology provides an unprecedented level of server scalability, operational simplicity and bandwidth reduction – a combination that yields exceptional reductions in capital outlays and ongoing operational costs.

The Request Switch 9000 iON Series raises the bar for web performance optimization. By compressing and encrypting traffic within the same integrated solution, network administrators can ensure end-to-end secure delivery while providing a significant improvement in last mile response times without incurring additional costs and management burden or increasing traffic load on switches and routers. Whether your assets are in a single data center or spread throughout the world, the Request Switch 9000 iON Series will allow for network optimization that is not possible with conventional solutions or any combination of point products.

Application Traffic Security and Availability
•	Uninterrupted service even during high volume DoS attacks
•	Unmatched application-level protection from worm attacks and intrusion attempts
•	Insulation from surges in legitimate traffic
•	Assured responsiveness with unique SureConnect
•	Guaranteed service for important applications or customers with Priority Queuing

End-to-End Encryption of Application Data
•	SSL acceleration at 4,400 TPS and 450 Mbps of encrypted throughput
•	End-to-end data encryption for highly secure environments
•	Clustered architecture for scaling beyond gigabit wire speed

Application Traffic Optimization
•	Bandwidth consumption reduced by up to 50% with integrated compression
•	Server, cache and firewall capacity increased by up to 300%
•	Improved end-user response times via compressed SSL, client connection persistence and protocol acceleration

•	Up to 2 Gbps throughput
•	Up to 100,000 requests per second
•	Up to 2 million concurrent connections
•	Integrated SSL up to 4,400 TPS
	Up to 450 Mbits of encrypted throughput
	Up to 400 Mbits of compression throughput

Uniquely complements your existing infrastructure by integrating unlimited SSL capacity, application-level protection and infrastructure optimization into a single solution for the secure delivery of business-critical web applications.

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