The document summarizes the ALOHA Load Balancer appliance from Exceliance. It provides load balancing, application delivery, and security services. The appliance is available in various models supporting different throughput, connections, and form factors. It offers high availability, performance optimization, and security features to improve application performance and availability.

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ALOHA Load Balancer
Rackable Appliance
Exceliance load balancing solutions are designed to improve performance, guarantee quality of service and ensure application availability by
dynamically balancing traffic and requests over business applications or web servers.
With ALOHA Appliance Rack Duo, Exceliance meets two needs: reduce energy consumption and space saving in server rooms and datacenters
without sacrificing performance or reliability.
• Unlimited number of servers per group • URL restrictions
Load Balancing • Persistence management shared between • Data Leak Prevention
cluster LB • HTTP / HTTPS filtering
• Support for all types of protocols
• Content switching distributes requests to
specific servers according to their content
• Sticky sessions and cookie management Application performance
• SSL Transactions support Integration and administration
• Full IP Support • Unlimited IP:port pairs per virtual
• Direct Server Return server • VLAN (802.1q), multi-site VPN (IPSec or
• Numerous balancing algorithms may be • Log offload management SSL)
applied by server or by server group, with • TCP/HTTP acceleration via buffering • Interface Bridging and bonding
weighting • Dynamic connection control • Proxy mode or Transparent Proxy mode
• Compatible with Web Services and Web • Removal of useless HTTP requests implementation
Sockets • Early release of connections • Advanced monitoring and logging,
• IPv6 • Compression service and application status,
connection details, statistics on activity
• Web administration interface and
Command Line Interface (via SSH or
Application security serial port)
High application availability • Troubleshooting tools
• Protection against DoS, DDoS, worms, • Multilevel administration (supervision
• Continuous server monitoring SQL injection, etc. and configuration)
• Smooth server shutdown • Protocol validation • Syslog, SNMP, VRRP and NTP support
• Overload protection • Blacklist/whitelist management • Provisioning and management API
MODELS ALB 1K ALB 2K ALB 4K ALB 8K ALB 16K ALB 30K ALB 50K
Max Power consumption 7W 40 W 53 W 57 W 100 W 110 W
Network Interfaces 3 x 100 Mb/s 4 x 1 Gb/s 8 x 1 Gb/s (+2x10 Gb/s)
Maximum Throughput 100 Mb/s 240 Mb/s 800 Mb/s 1.2 Gb/s 2.3 (5) Gb/s 3 (6.6) Gb/s
Concurrent connections 1 000 2 000 4 000 20 000 40 000 >64 000 >64 000
HTTP requests/sec (keepalive) 4 000 8 000 16 000 32 000 64 000 120 000 200 000
HTTP connections/second 1 000 2 000 4 000 8 000 16 000 30 000 50 000
SSL transactions/second 150 300 450 1 200 2 600 3 700 9 500
Calculation of RSA keys/second 12 25 60 150 200 380 1 000
Concurrent TCP connections 128 K 256 K 512 K 1M 2M 4M 8M
TCP connections/second 3 250 7 500 18 000 40 000 80 000 120 000 200 000
DDoS blocking capacity (conn/sec) 6 000 12 000 24 000 48 000 96 000 180 000 300 000
Number of real servers Unlimited
High Availability Cluster option Yes
Standard warranty 1 year on hardware / 90 days on software
XLCARE warranty extensions Standard return to factory/ Advanced: NBD replacement / Premium
Demo & download on: www.exceliance.fr
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