WHAT IS THE ALTEON APPLICATION SWITCH FAMILY?
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. Application switches are commonly used for: • Load balancing & Layer 7 content switching • Acceleration – application and SSL • Security / denial of service (DoS) protection • High availability (HA) – between servers / between sites • Bandwidth management – QoS • Traffic management – block rogue applications, worms • WAN link load balancing – multi-homing Alteon Application Switches are designed from the ground up as an application switch dedicated to optimizing networks for application performance. Alteon Application Switches are commonly used in server farms, data centers, web hosting sites, and networks.
