Alteon Application Switch

Alteon Application Switches

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The Alteon Application Switches from Nortel Networks enable application optimization, delivery, and high availability through the use of sophisticated application/device load balancing, intelligent traffic management, application redirection, application-layer security, security acceleration, and bandwidth management. The ideal solution for enterprises, e-businesses, content providers, and service providers that want to enable high-performance application server farms, data centers, and networks.

Alteon Application Switches are available in 5 different models to meet any customer need.

Key Features:

• The Alteon Application Switch enables application optimization and securely scales delivery of applications such as VoIP, Web Services, ERP, CRM, etc.
• Multi-layer security with application-layer intrusion prevention, Denial of Service protection, SSL Acceleration, and SSL VPN are standard features of the Alteon Application Switch.
• The Alteon Application Switch offers application health checking and load balancing to simplify deployment and enable high availability application architectures.
• Intelligent Traffic Management offered by the Alteon Application Switch enables classification, prioritization, redirection, rate limiting and rate shaping of application traffic.
• The Alteon Application Switches offer the highest performance application switching architecture (Tolly Jan. 3, 2003)