Radware Alteon
On March 31, 2009 Radware acquired the application switching line of business from Nortel Networks. Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR) is the global leader in integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking. For over 11 years Radware has assured the full availability, maximum performance, and complete security of business-critical applications for enterprises and carriers worldwide. Nearly 10,000 customers rely each day on Radware’s award-winning portfolio of products to drive business productivity, improve profitability, and reduce IT operating and infrastructure costs.
Radware will offer the acquired product line under the Alteon product sub-brand. The company is dedicated to the continued development of the product line and will support the portfolio for a five-year period. The development roadmap will bring sustained advancements to provide customers with the enhanced capabilities required to meet their most demanding application infrastructure needs. For more information about Radware, please visit www.radware.com.
The efficient flow of application traffic is fundamental to the successful operations of every business today. Yet, the very trends intended to wring more productivity and utilization out of the underlying network infrastructure, can make traffic optimization elusive. Radware’s Alteon portfolio of products can provide organizations with a robust set of application delivery solutions to satisfy the challenges and complexities posed by the following IT initiatives:
- Data Center Consolidation
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Virtualization
- Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery
- Mobility
- Compliance
Whether it’s about increasing the efficiency or resiliency of a virtualized infrastructure or ensuring reliable, remote access from the branch to the data center or complying with the latest set of regulatory measures such as IPv6 and more, Radware’s Alteon application delivery solutions are there to help.
Alteon Application Switches
Radware’s Alteon Application Switches deliver application availability, performance and security by balancing and accelerating traffic and by giving IT Managers control over their network.
Alteon Application Switches integrate routing and switching by forwarding traffic at layer 2 speed using layer 4-7 information. They are designed from the ground up to optimize networks for application performance. Built around the patented, distributed processing Virtual Matrix Architecture, these switches provide uncompromising performance and value. With virtualization support, the Alteon Application Switch allows service providers to efficiently enable differentiated services for enterprise businesses.
Application switches are commonly used in server farms, data centers, web hosting sites or wherever availability, performance and security are required. Alteon Application Switches have been optimized to work with applications from leading vendors including Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, and SAP.
Alteon Application Switches are available in five models.
Alteon Application Accelerator
Radware’s Alteon Application Accelerator 510 saves money and increases user satisfaction by reducing the server and bandwidth needs and by improving the responsiveness of web-based applications. The Alteon Application Accelerator 510 will improve application performance 5 to 20 times, and includes profiles optimized and tested for IBM WebSphere, Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) and Microsoft SharePoint.
The Alteon Application Accelerator 510 is ideal for enterprises that expect no more than 4000 peak users and who don’t require the assurance of continuous availability that dual power supplies, hot-swappable fans and dual hard drives deliver. The Alteon Application Accelerator 510 and Alteon Application Accelerator 610 can be clustered for added scalability and reliability.
