Due to technological advancements, application delivery is undergoing dramatic change. With the advent of virtualization, public and private clouds, the explosion in mobile traffic and the move towards new standards including IPv6 and 2048-bit encryption, the expectations and demands of the customers are sky high.

1. Get Performance, Scalability, Availability and Security with Application Delivery Controllers
Due to technological advancements, application delivery is undergoing dramatic change. With the advent of virtualization,
public and private clouds, the explosion in mobile traffic and the move towards new standards including IPv6 and 2048-bit
encryption, the expectations and demands of the customers are sky high. In order to meet the demands and requirements of
the customers, there is the need of modern application delivery controllers that provide performance and scalability in line with
the demands of mobile and cloud computing and agility to extract maximum efficiency and ROI from application infrastructure.
Wikipedia defines an Application Delivery Controller (ADC) as “a network device, part of an application delivery network (ADN),
in the datacenter that helps perform common tasks done by web sites in an effort to remove load from the web
servers themselves.” According to Gartner, “ADCs provide a set of functions to optimize enterprise application environments.
The market evolved from the load balancing systems that were specifically developed to ensure the availability and scalability
of websites. Enterprises use ADCs to optimize reliability, end-user performance, data center resource use and security for a
variety of enterprise applications.”
Deploying best of the breed application delivery controllers help to address the challenges faced by enterprise, service provider
and public sector organizations in the areas of application and cloud service delivery. Besides, it bridges the gap between
enterprise requirements and budgets to improve the performance, availability and security of Web applications and cloud
services cost-effectively. Here is a look at some of its features and benefits.
 L4/L7 server load balancing
 L7 application scripting
 Link load balancing and GSLB
 L4 routing
 Connection multiplexing
 SSL offload and acceleration
 Caching and compression
 Traffic Shaping
 L7 firewall
 99.999% application availability
 Accelerate applications 5x or more
 Improve server efficiency 10x or more
 Full IPv6 support, DNS64 & NAT64
 2048 and 4096-bit SSL acceleration
 vAPV virtual ADC
 Application virtualization
 Virtual server integration
 Stateful TCP session failover
 Application-specific certifications
 cloud management API
 High-performance ADC appliances from 2 Gbps to 120 Gbps throughput
 Industry-leading HTTP and HTTPS throughput, concurrent connections, connections per second and SSL transactions
per second
 Superior performance within every market segment from the mid-market to the enterprise to the service provider
 Lowest-cost L7 requests per second, lowest-cost L4 connections per second, lowest-cost SSL transactions per second
and lowest-cost SSL megabits per second
 Green 1RU and 2RU space-saving designs with the lowest power consumption requirements available on the market
 Proven 6 month average time period to achieve ROI for enterprise, service provider and public sector organizations
Thus, a best of the breed ADC helps to scale performance, availability and security.
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