Radware,
a leading provider of application delivery and application security
solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, today announced the launch
of its newest high-scale, carrier-grade application delivery
controllers (ADC) aimed for mobile carriers and high-end enterprise data
centers.
Radware introduces two ADC solutions as software and hardware platforms.
The Alteon VA for NFV, a virtual network function for network
functions virtualization (NFV) environments and the Alteon 8420, a
carrier-grade, high capacity ADC.
As network carriers and enterprise data centers seek to reduce their
CAPEX and OPEX as well as accelerate the deployment of new network/web
services, these organizations are working to standardize the
virtualization of their network functions through an industry standard
called NFV.
As industry's first NFV compliant, software-based application delivery
controller (ADC) on the market, Radware's Alteon VA for NFV will help
reduce the total cost of ownership for carrier's load balancing and
traffic steering functions by decoupling ADC functions from dedicated
underlying hardware and offering the same benefits but through a
highly-scalable, software-based solution.
Designed from the ground up to meet the needs of carriers and high-end
enterprise data centers, the Alteon VA for NFV can run on commercially
off the shelf (COTS) server infrastructure and delivers up to 160Gbps of
throughput capacity.
Benefits of the Alteon VA for NFV (VNF/C) include:
- Cost Reduction: Ability to run ADC function on standardized hardware.
Eliminates specialized hardware purchase or implementation.
- Dynamic Scalability: Seamlessly add more throughput capacity as needed by leveraging existing server infrastructure.
- Advanced Carrier Functions: Efficiently route traffic to different
value added services (VAS) or monetization engines with high capacity
steering functions.
- High-performance: Multi vCPU support, vSwitch bypass and leveraging of Intel's DPDK library.
- Reduced Operational Complexity: Faster rollout of complex applications
through native integration with virtualization orchestration systems.
For high-end enterprise data centers and network carriers who have not
yet transitioned to NFV, Radware introduces its newest addition to the
Alteon line of hardware platforms. The Alteon 8420 offers on demand
scalability in throughput 100-160 Gbps in a single platform and up to
100 virtual ADC (vADC) instances. This allows the user to consolidate
existing ADC devices as well as to support dozens of applications and
services with a single ADC platform.
The Alteon 8420 is a carrier-grade platform designed to meet the
challenging capacity growth of carriers and Internet service providers
who need to address the increase of video and mobile data traffic.
"Carrier networks are seeing an exponential growth with the amount of
traffic in their data centers due to the escalation of mobile
communication and Internet ready devices connected to the network," says
David Aviv, vice president of advanced services, Radware. "As carriers
start to explore new alternatives offered by the NFV architecture and
implementation for reduced cost structure and operations, this new
offering provides high-scale ADC software (VNF) and hardware solutions
that will meet the ongoing capacity needs for those who require a
durable high-end ADC solution."