Radware has expanded its Alteon Application Switch product line with the launch of two new switches, the Alteon 4408 and Alteon 4416, after less than one-year it has acquired Nortel’s layer 4-7 application switching business.
The Alteon 4-series, built on Radware’s on demand infrastructure approach, allows Alteon customers to start with a certain bandwidth and application services to meet current operational requirements and then increase capacity and capabilities on a ‘pay-as-you-grow’ model, without replacing or rebooting supporting hardware, the company claims.
According to Radware, the 4-series combines Alteon Virtual Matrix Architecture (VMA) technology with its hardware platforms. The switches are designed and built as Layer 4-7 application delivery switches with backward compatibility.
With extended throughput capacity up to 4Gbps, the Alteon 4408 and 4416 deliver performance including 215K Layer 4 and 135K Layer 7 transactions per second and the fastest response time, Radware said.
The company claims that the new release enables broadest range of performance traffic management and control services with six-gigabit ethernet and two small form-factor pluggable (SFP) ports on the Alteon 4408 and twelve GE, four SFP ports and dual, out-of-band management ports on the Alteon 4416.
Ilan Kinreich, chief operating officer of Radware, said: Enterprises will increase their investments in datacentre technologies as a way to improve business agility – especially as cloud services, IT-communications convergence and the software-services industries have a transformative effect on the network, while data center consolidation, virtualisation and similar initiatives support the need for cost cutting and productivity enhancement.
The Alteon 4-series is a core component of both the current and next-generation datacenter; strategically aligning business-IT investments through real-time awareness, increased speed, performance, and compliance of mission-critical applications.
