Nortel Networks 7400 - Manual (Page 80)

Customer Profile
Alteon Application Switches are an ideal solution for
Enterprises, Hosting Providers, Content Providers,
e-Businesses and Service Providers that require a
high performance switching solution for high-traffic
IT Data Centres, network and hosting
infrastructures. Current Alteon Web Switch
customers, that require more Layer 4-7 physical
ports for easy migration into higher port density,
higher session capacity and higher switch
performance.
Typical Applications
In order to provide the intelligence, scalability and
resilience to any web site, Alteon Application
Switches offer a raft of applications that are
leveraged using the feature rich AlteonOS. These
applications include:
• Server Load Balancing
• Global Server Load Balancing
• Web Cache Redirection
• Application Redirection (including SSL)
• Bandwidth Management
• Content Intelligent Load Balancing
• Firewall Load Balancing
• Streaming Media Load Balancing
• Intrusion Detection Load Balancing
• Wireless Load Balancing
• VPN Load Balancing
• Domain Name Service Layer7 Loadbalancing
Key Points
• The Alteon Application Switch is without doubt
the industry leader in performance, functionality,
scalability and reliability when it comes to
Content Switching.
• The Alteon Application Switch uses a distributed
architecture to ensure that all processor intensive
intelligent decisions are off loaded evenly across
all network processors.
• The feature rich AlteonOS not only performs
standard content switching but also allows for
advanced applications such as Firewall Load
Balancing, Application Redirection, Wireless
access and full RTSP Streaming support
• The switch is without doubt an easy to manage
and robust device that is deployed in some of
the most mission critical and highly accessed
sites today.
• The integrated security functions enhance the
overall security of the connected networks:
Layer-7 Deny filter, Denial Of Service Attack
Detection and –prevention,TCP rate-limiting
and enhanced Port Mirroring.
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Alteon Application
Switch (AAS)
Overview
The Alteon Application Switch is Nortel Networks next generation of high performance Layer 2-7 fixed
network switches. It runs Alteons software “AlteonOS” and has increased switching performance, session
capacity, feature capacity and port density compared to the current Webswitch platform.
The Alteon 2224 is a single Rack Unit, Fast Ethernet entry-level Application Switch that has 24 RJ45 10/100
auto-sensing Fast Ethernet ports as well as 2 optical Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports for a total of 26
useable ports.