AppBeat DC Features

Operational Efficiency

HyperScale

The new HyperScale design architecture offers a powerful scale on demand solution. This optional software package creates an abstraction layer between the OS and the hardware, converting any AppBeat CN-7000 platform into a single, cascade-able ADC. With HyperScale’s sophisticated N+i architecture, ADC infrastructures can now be built gradually, deploying what is needed today and scaling as demand and capacity requirements grow — up to a hundred Gbps. HyperScale delivers massive scalability and predictable, high performance with greater operational simplicity, management, and cost savings.

Elastic Resource Control (ERC)

Elastic Resource Control maintains application service levels by measuring and controlling application performance, and allocating the least amount of server resources necessary to meet service level obligations. Using ERC, organizations can deploy resources most efficiently to meet customer needs, saving energy and other operating expenses.

Optimization & Acceleration

TCP Offload, Multiplexing and Acceleration

Reducing TCP connection concurrency and controlling connection management overhead are critical to ensuring fast, reliable and efficient delivery of applications.
AppBeat DC’s purpose-built architecture offers a fundamentally different and more efficient approach to offloading and optimizing TCP communications.

AppBeat DC is the only solution to provide true hardware-based TCP termination and strict HTTP multiplexing. Acting as a reverse proxy between the client and the server, it buffers incoming HTTP requests from client-side connections, then proxies fully buffered requests to the server over a controlled number of persistent LAN connections, buffering HTTP responses and allowing the server to move on to the next request immediately.

The combination of true TCP termination, buffering, strict HTTP multiplexing and HTTP request queuing relieves servers of much of the work of connection management, delivering a consistent LAN-like environment for servers and dramatically improving application performance.

Zero-latency Compression

Data compression reduces the amount of data sent to the user, cutting bandwidth
requirements up to 85%. AppBeat DC’s dedicated hardware compression engine
performs all compression tasks in line, in real time, with up to 6 Gbps throughput.
Unlike other solutions, AppBeat DC starts compressing as soon as it starts receiving packets for zero latency. AppBeat DC eliminates the need for server-level compression, improving application performance and user experience while reducing network and server load.

Caching

Content caching improves Web application performance and increases server and
network efficiency. AppBeat DC provides caching for HTTP content, instantly serving frequently requested pages while minimizing content regeneration and server load for improved application and end user performance.

SSL Offload and Acceleration

With more applications requiring security, many servers now handle SSL processing in addition to their core applications. AppBeat DC offloads this CPU-intensive task, freeing server resources and making the site faster and more economical. AppBeat DC manages both SSL session setup and bulk data encryption tasks, employing dedicated hardware designed to accelerate these resource-intensive processes.

Local and Global Load Balancing

Intelligent load balancing improves performance and enhances application availability. Because AppBeat DC terminates TCP connections and manages all request flows for each server, it has full visibility into application load at any given time. This uniquely enables AppBeat DC to manage traffic on a request-by-request basis, checking each server for outstanding transactions, server load and health, ensuring that data is always sent to the least loaded server. At the global level, AppBeat DC monitors and distributes traffic among different data centers for optimal performance and business continuity.
 

Control

Crescendo Rules Engine (CRE)

AppBeat DC provides the industry’s only hardware-based rules engine, offering
comprehensive traffic control with real-time payload modification. This “classify
and modify anything” functionality enables configuration of complex traffic routing,
classification and content control even under heavy traffic loads of up to 10
Gbps, without degrading the overall unit performance. Competing solutions with
software-based rules engines cannot match this throughput and often become the
performance bottleneck when multiple features are deployed.

ADC Virtualization (vADC)

Using virtual partitioning, application acceleration and offload resources can be
divided into multiple segments to meet specific business needs. Allocate ADC
capabilities across different applications within a data center or as a managed service for end customers, each with different traffic and service level requirements.

Application Assurance and Availability

Traffic spikes and anomalies can seriously affect server performance. Because AppBeat DC terminates all incoming connections for servers, it maintains a normalized operating environment, shielding servers from erratic client behavior as well as malicious attacks (DDoS) and flash crowd events. AppBeat DC effortlessly manages millions of simultaneous connections, dropping unwanted or malicious traffic before it reaches the server.