The Alteon 5412 High-End Platform: Built for the Next-Generation Data Center
This white paper discusses how Alteon 5412, Radware’s latest addition to the Alteon Application Switches product line, addresses the various challenges facing IT professionals and data center managers when they come to plan their data centers network infrastructure and specifically the Application Delivery Controllers.

Intelligent Traffic Management
Overview of Intelligent Application Traffic Management, a solution utilizing an Alteon Application Switch to provide bandwidth based application (Layer 7) QoS and application-level security. The solution allows the inspection of any application flow for pre-defined attributes, classifying a flow based on these attributes, applying traffic policies, and reporting usage.

Enhancing Web User Experience with Global Server Load Balancing
Overview of the Alteon Application Switch global server load balancing (GSLB) capability which allows Web hosters, portals and enterprises to distribute content and services geographically.

Virtual Matrix Architecture: Scaling Web Applications for Performance and Capacity
Web infrastructure equipment is fundamentally different from traditional networking devices like switches and routers. While networking devices focus on switching individual frames and packets at ultra-high speeds, Application Switch focuses on tracking and processing Web sessions. The changing nature of Web applications, protocols and content delivery mechanisms mandates a radically different approach to Application Switch architectures.

Secure Application Management with Alteon Application Switch
Today’s most prevalent security threats, such as viruses, worms and denial- of-service (DoS) attacks, exploit vulnerabilities in the application layer of the network. Malicious code is embedded within the content, or payload, of data packets, where it takes advantage of vulnerabilities in the protocols or behavior of applications—such as Web Services, instant messaging, email, FTP or databases—to gain access to network resources or subvert the application.