What is Nortels Application Switch family?
Nortel Application Switches deliver application availability, performance and security by balancing and accelerating traffic and by giving IT Managers control over their network. Nortel Application Switches integrate routing and switching by forwarding traffic at layer 2 speed using layer 4-7 information. Application switches are commonly used for: • Load balancing & Layer 7 Content Switching • Acceleration – application and SSL • Security / Denial of Service (DoS) protection • High Availability- between servers / between sites • Bandwidth management – QoS • Traffic Management – block rogue applications, worms • WAN Link Load Balancing – Multi-homing Nortel’s Application Switches are the first on the market truly designed from the ground up as an application switch dedicated to optimizing networks for application performance. Application Switches are commonly used in server farms, data centers, web hosting sites, and networks.