Alteon Application Switch provides a comprehensive set of capabilities and cutting-edge features. Click the category below to see more details.

• Key Capabilities
• Feature Highlights
• Network Protocol and Standards Compatibility

Application Availability

• Load balancing of SIP & TLS applications based on TCP protocols for Microsoft OCS. Also, TCP load balancing for any non-standard port.
• TCP health checks to monitor the health of OCS SIP service
• Multiple and Rapid Spanning Tree Protocols (MSTP and RSTP)
• Real Time Streaming Media (RTSP) load balancing
• Web services (XML/SOAP) inspection/redirection
• High availability - such as active/active or active/standby
• Stateful failover with persistence
• WAN link multi-homing
• OSPF and BGP routing
• Scriptable health checking
• Support for Windows Terminal Services
• Support for IBM Enterprise Workload Manager
• Support for Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Support for Softricity SoftGrid
• NEW! Automatically adapt the Alteon Application Switch to virtual infrastructure configuration changes with vAdapter

Application Performance

• Local and global server load balancing
• WAN link load balancing
• VoIP (SIP) call server load balancing
• Wireless Internet (WAP) load balancing
• Domain Name Server (DNS) load balancing
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server load balancing
• Server load balancing
• Cache redirection and load balancing
• Content-intelligent (Layer 4 through 7) switching
• Bandwidth management, shaping and rate limiting
• TCP multiplexing
• Rout optimization
• SSL Acceleration
• Support for IBM DataPower XML acceleration technology

Application Security

• Symantec Intelligent Network Protection with deep packet inspection
• Extensive denial of service (DoS) protection (TCP, IP, UDP, ICMP)
• Bogus IP (Bogon) filtering
• Detect and block rogue applications – P2P, IM and more
• High-profile worm and threat protection
• Peer-to-Peer traffic inspection, redirection, bandwidth rate limiting
• Enforcement point for the Nortel Threat Prevention System (TPS)
• SSL acceleration offload and load balancing
• Firewall load balancing
• Intrusion Detection System (IDS) load balancing
• Virtual Private Network (VPN) load balancing
• Application abuse protection
• Wire-speed filtering

• Simplified user-friendly browser- based Interface
• TACACS+ Accounting
• Enhanced Security
• Real-time, in-stream intrusion prevention via Symantec™ Intelligent Network Protection
• Detection of latest threats automatically with Symantec’s LiveUpdate network
• Bogon (bogus IP) filtering
• Application integration support for Window’s Terminal Services, IBM’s Workload Manager and Softricity’s SoftGrid
• Application Acceleration through TCP connection optimization and multiplexing

SIP UDP fragmentation support for Nortel’s MCS 5100

• Enhanced SNMP traps to improve Disaster Recovery on Nortel’s MCS 5100 & to increase site availability
• IPv6 layer 4 load balancing
• Support for converged applications through Multiple Spanning Tree (MSTP) and Rapid Spanning Tree (RSTP) protocols.
• Wireless support through Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
• Open XML Application Programming Interface
• Enhanced Global Server Load Balancing based on server health, network preference, server weights, and response times
• Advanced TCP, UDP, and IP application server load balancing support, including HTTP (persistent and non-persistent), FTP and passive FTP, SSL, SMTP, POP, IMAP, SIP, LDAP, DNS, RADIUS, RTSP, WAP, Telnet, NNTP, and others
• Sophisticated server, link, and application health checking; user-scriptable to enable content verification
• High-performance content intelligent switching using HTTP headers, URLs, cookies, and payload allows infrastructure optimization and differentiated services
• Persistent connections using source IP address, HTTP cookies, wireless subscriber ID (MSISDN), SSL ID, or any configured headers
• Application redirection for any traffic type (Web Services, streaming media, etc.)
• Concurrent multi-application support
• Intelligent Traffic Management with bandwidth management supporting Gigabit rate limiting, rate shaping, prioritization, and discard of application traffic
• Sophisticated filtering rules applied per switch, per port, or per VLAN to allow, deny, redirect, or translate traffic based on source/destination IP, protocol number/name, TCP/UDP application or source/destination port, and other criteria such as TCP flags and ICMP message types
• TCP/UDP application or source/destination port, and other criteria such as TCP flags and ICMP message types
• Comprehensive application-layer security that protects server and network infrastructure through features such as application abuse protection, advanced DoS and Symantec Intelligent Network Protection incorporating the latest security signatures from Symantec to secure your network from a wide range of attacks
• Up to 2,048 packet filtering rules
• Full Network Address Translation (NAT)
• High availability via Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP); supports three modes of high availability: Active-Standby, Active-Active and Hot-Standby
• Hot-standby failover with in-band keep-alive and configuration updates
• End-user management virtualization
• Support for up to 16 spanning tree instances or groups
• OSPF, RIP, BGP v4, and 802.3ad support
• Up to 1,024 virtual servers (VIP) per application switch
• Up to 1,024 real servers supported
• 2048 VLANs supported in E-models
• Support for up to five syslog servers
• Support for 128 management networks

• 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-TX (IEEE 802.3-2000)
• 1000BASE-SX/LX (IEEE 802.3z), 1000BASE-T (IEEE 802.3ab), 1000Base-ZX
• 10GBASE-SR/LR (IEEE 802.3)
• Rapid Spanning Tree (RSTP) IEEE 802.1w
• Multi-instance Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) IEEE 802.1s
• Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) 802.1ad
• VRRP
• Spanning Tree (IEEE 802.1d)
• Logical link control (IEEE 802.2)
• Flow control (IEEE 802.3x)
• Link negotiation (IEEE 802.3z)
• VLANs (IEEE 802.1Q)
• Frame tagging (IEEE 802.1Q) on all ports when VLANs enabled
• SNMP v3
• IPv6 Layer 4 load balancing
• RIPv1, RIPv2
• BGP v4
• OSPF
• TFTP (RFC 783)
• BootP (RFC 1542)
• BootP (RFC 951)
• Telnet (RFC 854)
• EtherChannel-compatible trunking