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JetNexus Enterprise Load Balancer

jetNEXUS is a range of high performance, scalable, and robust appliance and software products that can transform the performance of your network infrastructure and therefore your business.

JetNEXUS Enterprise Load Balancer

The jetNEXUS Enterprise Load Balancer offers high performance multi protocol load balancing, SSL offload and traffic management. These high throughput, high availability devices offer market leading performance and scalibility.

Features of the JetNexus Enterprise Load Balancer

The jetNEXUS Load Balancer offers the following features:

• Resilient Load Balancing
• Intelligent Clusters
• Application Acceleration
• Service Management
• Greater Capacity
• Cost-Effective SSL Offload
• Content-Aware Load Balancing using RuleBuilder
• Traffic Visualisation, Trend Analysis and Rapid Fault Isolation
• Support for Multiple Services
• IP Transparency

Resilient Load Balancing

The jetNEXUS Enterprise products allow you to create a fully fault-tolerant cluster of server machines by protecting against failures of back-end server nodes and front-end load balancer units. Providing that sufficient balancer and server machines are functioning, the cluster will continue to operate without failure.

Intelligent Clusters

Many of today's most challenging load balancing issues involve recognising and understanding the nature of individual application requests and responses. The jetNEXUS range can read and understand requests, and then direct appropriately.

Application Acceleration

The jetNEXUS range improves the performance, reliability and scalability of application services such as web, mail, news, FTP and database protocols, through a combination of SSL and WAN offload, content compression, performance and health monitoring, and automatic fail-over in the event of hardware or software failure. CPU-intensive processing such as SSL can be offloaded onto the jetNEXUS Enterprise applicance to free up application servers such as BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere to do their own specialist tasks, greatly enhancing their performance and your return on investment.

Service Management

The jetNEXUS Enterprise products are best deployed close to the servers they are managing, making sophisticated load balancing decisions and closely monitoring the hosted services. The Load balancer works seamlessly with any networked application service, avoiding expensive tie-ins and enhancing existing infrastructures.

Greater Capacity

The jetNEXUS Enterprise applicance's unique process architecture ensures it can handle more transactions, more content inspection rules, more application services and more back-end servers. Its price:performance ratio surpasses all other traffic management and load balancing solutions available on the market ensuring you achieve an excellent return on your investment.

Cost-Effective SSL Offload

The jetNEXUS Enterprise range uses the most secure and highest performance SSL technology available (up to 3000 tps) to assure end-to-end security of your managed Internet services. Centralized SSL certificate management and support for Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) are also provided as standard.

Content-Aware Load Balancing

The jetNEXUS Enterprise appliance is able to extract maximum performance from your application services through traffic optimisation and intelligent load balancing. It allows you to redirect traffic to specific servers using content-aware routing policies, to take advantage of different applications' capabilities and to reserve capacity for premium customers. It also supports a wide range of session persistence methods.

Traffic Visualisation, Trend Analysis and Rapid Fault Isolation

The jetNEXUS Enterprise range provides you with real-time reporting and historical trend graphs of the performance of your network from a single user interface. This means you can plan future capacity requirements and allows rapid fault isolation, reducing the time to fix. Statistical data gathered by the device can be retrieved using SNMP for easy integration into existing network monitoring infrastructure such as HP OpenView.

Support for Multiple Services

The jetNEXUS Enterprise products can balance any UDP or TCP based protocol, and is commonly deployed to provide load balancing in a cluster hosting a range of application services such as web, DNS, mail (SMTP/IMAP/POP), FTP and streaming media. The load balancing algorithms used by jetNEXUS Enterprise load balancer maximise the responsiveness of the service and prevent any one application or server node becoming overloaded

IP Transparency

IP Transparency ensures that jetNEXUS preserves the IP address of the remote client when forwarding requests to a back-end server. Without this capability, the request appears to originate from the JetNEXUS machine. IP Transparency can be selectively controlled by TrafficScript.