Radware Alteon 10000
Accelerate Applications with Alteon Application Switch Series 5 Series
Radware Alteon 10000 Application Switch
Overview:
Alteon Application Switch 10000 provides superior performance, advanced application acceleration capabilities and OnDemand scalability needed to effectively meet contemporary network and business needs. Specifically designed for carriers, service providers and large enterprises data centers, the Alteon 10000 provides up to 80Gbps of application delivery capacity for unparalleled application scalability, availability and performance.
Breakthrough Performance Delivering Best Quality of Experience
Carriers and Internet service providers experience massive growth of Internet, video and mobile data traffic. The Alteon 10000 is designed to meet these challenging capacity growths while delivering significant business benefits for carriers, mobile data mega-pops, Internet service providers and large enterprises data centers that require a high-end ADC solution.
Powered by a state-of-the-art, custom-designed hardware platform, the Alteon 10000 ensures the best user experience and fastest response time for mission-critical applications, resulting in effective, continuous business operation. The Alteon 10000 provides up to 80Gbps of scalable throughput capacity while delivering breakthrough performance including 1.4M Layer 4 Connections per Second, 800K Layer 7 Connections per Second and 44M concurrent connections1.
The beating heart of Alteon 10000 is the Virtual Matrix Architecture (VMA), a one-of-a-kind technology that unleashes the power of Alteon’s next-generation proprietary platforms. VMA is a fast, robust, and flexible architecture embedding multi- CPU and multi-core components, which leverages the entire system’s capacity while providing the parallel performance of distributed processing resulting in linear layer 4-7 scalability.
ATCA Chassis and Carrier-Grade Reliability
The Alteon 10000 is built upon Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) chassis to meet the most demanding requirements and regulations. With 15 ports of 10GE / GE (SFP+ pluggable optics) and additional 8 ports of 1GE (copper), the Alteon 10000 provides extensive ports offering and wide set of connectivity alternatives. The 6-slots chassis of Alteon 10000 accommodates 4 payload blades, each providing 20Gbps of throughput, up to a total of 80Gbps. All the chassis blades are hot swappable, allowing blades replacements without stopping the entire chassis. In addition, the Alteon 10000 chassis includes fabric switch blades for internal communication, as well as a Shelf Manager module which monitors and controls the low-level aspects of the platform’s blades and components, including temperature monitoring, fan-speed control, alarm I/O, and power management.
The Alteon 10000 delivers carrier-grade reliability required by the most demanding carrier application environments. It features reliable, custom-made hardware coupled with embedded components providing high MTBF with three AC/DC load sharing, hot-swappable power supplies and two hot-swappable fan trays. It is NEBS 3 compliant, complies with the strictest regulations, and is certified by the most up-to-date hardware and networking standards.
Intelligently Embedding Radware's 'OnDemand' Infrastructure Approach
By embracing Radware’s OnDemand approach, you only pay for the exact capacity currently required by your network, which prevents over-spending on the initial solution. Additional processing blades, throughput capacity, acceleration capabilities and application-aware services can be added on demand to meet new business requirements – with no forklift upgrade of the device and no restart. The OnDemand approach enables you to overcome capacity planning challenges and reduces the risk associated with data center growth for best investment protection as capacity and services can be added when needed.
ADC Virtualization with ADC-VX™
The latest addition to Alteon OS capabilities is the ADC-VX, the industry’s first ADC hypervisor built on a unique architecture that virtualizes the resources of the Alteon Application Switch, allowing multiple Alteon vADC instances running on the same platform with full instance isolation. This unique industry capability is achieved through complete resource virtualization and reservation including CPU, memory, network and acceleration resources. This specialized hypervisor runs fully-functional virtual ADC instances where each delivers full ADC functionality just like a dedicated physical Alteon device. Each virtual ADC instance contains a complete and separated environment of resources, configurations and management.
ADC-VX is designed from the ground up to enable organizations to consolidate their ADC hardware devices without compromising resiliency or performance predictability of their ADC services – resulting in significant savings of hardware costs and operational expenses. Additionally, ADC-VX provides the agility and the simplicity that is required in the virtualized data center, driving faster deployment of new services and better alignment of ADC services with frequent configuration changes.
Powered by Alteon OS
The Alteon 10000 utilizes the Alteon OS, enabling you to leverage its solid, powerful capabilities including CLI, traffic policies, configuration and more. As a result, you can immediately enjoy Alteon’s renowned ease of operation and stability – by reducing operational hassle and costs related to network integration, operation scripts, network topology considerations and management – while at the same time, obtaining new benefits.
5-Year Longevity Guarantee Coupled with World-Class Support
Radware exclusively provides Alteon 10000 customers with a 5-year platform longevity guarantee. This enables extending the application delivery project lifetime, which directly translates into reduced TCO and higher ROI.
1 The performance figures are based on estimations and are subject to change.
Features and Benefits:
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| Smart Health Monitoring and Failure Detection |
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| Stateful Persistency |
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| Device Redundancy: Either Active-active or Active-passive |
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| Real-time Traffic Redirection |
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| Global Load Balancing |
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| Performance Acceleration | |
| Boosts Application Response Speeds by Up to 500% |
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| Accelerates Content Delivery |
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| Offloads CPU Intensive Tasks from Servers and Optimizes Use of IT Infrastructure |
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| Maximizes Bandwidth Usage |
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| Variety of Bandwidth Management and Traffic-shaping Capabilities |
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| Security | |
| ADoS Based Signature Technology |
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| Application Delivery | |
| Breakthrough Performance |
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| On-demand Throughput and Service Scalability |
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| Best Investment Protection |
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| Operations Simplicity |
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Technical Specifications:
Alteon 10000
- Designed for Carriers, Mobile operators and Internet Service Providers
- High-end performance application delivery appliance – up to 80 Gbps throughput capacity
- Built upon modular, Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) chassis:
- Four payload blades
- Switch blade
- Port extender blade
- Dual Shelf manager module
- Three AC/DC, hot-swappable power supplies
- Two hot-swappable fan trays
- NEBS 3 ready
- On-demand throughput scalability
- On-demand service scalability
- 15 ports of 10GE / GE (SFP+ pluggable optics) and 8 ports of 1GE (copper)
| Features | Application Switch 5 Series |
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| Model | Alteon 10000 |
| Available Throughput Licenses | Up to 4 ATCA-compliant, payload blades - delivering 20Gbps, 40Gbps, 60Gbps and 80Gbps scalable throughput capacity |
| Non-blocking Switch Fabric | 480 Gbps |
| Layer 2 Switching | Wire-speed |
| Simultaneous Sessions | Up to 44M |
| Routing Protocols | OSPF, RIP, BGP |
| Gigabit/Fiber Ports |
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| Pluggable Optics Operating Distance | Fiber ports deliver the following interfaces depending on pluggable optics:
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| Serial Management Console | RS-232C port |
| Shelf Manager (ShMC) |
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| Weight | 32.85 kg (74.42 lbs) |
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ADC-VX on Alteon NG:
The Agility of Virtual, The Predictability of Physical
ADC-VX is the industry's fi rst application delivery controller (ADC) hypervisor that runs multiple virtual ADC instances on Radware's OnDemand Switch platforms, a dedicated ADC hardware. ADC-VX is designed from the ground up to enable organizations to consolidate ADC hardware devices without compromising resiliency or performance predictability of ADC services — resulting in signifi cant savings of hardware costs and operational expenses. ADC-VX provides the agility and the simplicity that is required in the dynamic, ever-changing virtualized data center, driving faster deployment of new services and better alignment of ADC services with frequent confi guration changes.
Built on Alteon NG platforms, ADC-VX also provides all next generation (NG) services which enable organizations to ensure their applications' SLA, including application performance monitoring (APM), FastView web performance optimization (WPO) and AppWall web application fi rewall (WAF).
Resilience & Complete Isolation
Radware's ADC-VX is designed from the ground up to ensure complete fault isolation, network isolation and management isolation between neighboring virtual ADC instances. By providing this unique isolation architecture that is similar to dedicated physical ADC devices, Radware ADC-VX eliminates the risks involved with consolidation and physical to virtual (P2V) migration. In addition, the entire network layer is virtualized and private – including interfaces, VLANs, ARP and routing tables, which ensures that traffic is routed through isolated paths for maximum privacy.
Predictable Performance & SLA Guarantee
A unique resource guarantee mechanism ensures that each virtual ADC instance is allocated dedicated resources for its operation. This way, every virtual instance can utilize only those resources for which it was specifically allocated, resulting in predictable performance and service level agreement (SLA) guarantee for each instance. This approach completely eliminates the risks of resource starvation even under the most challenging scenarios. For example, a flash crowd event on one of the virtual instances will not affect the performance of other instances.
Full Business Agility
Instant provisioning, decommissioning and resource reallocation of virtual instances running on top of the ADC-VX drives business agility by significantly shortening the deployment time of new applications and services in the virtualized data center. Radware's ADC-VX makes it easy to reallocate resources and distribute them across virtual ADC instances, adjusting their performance and functionality to meet changing business needs.
Simple to Operate & Manage
ADC-VX hypervisor assigns physical resources such as CPU, memory, network and acceleration resources to capacity units, which are allocated to the virtual ADC instances by a simplified resource abstraction mechanism. This automatic process eliminates complicated calculation and reduces human errors. In addition, the centralized management system and dashboard provide a real-time view of the virtual instances' health and resource utilization, resulting in a scalable solution that is simple to operate and manage.
Significant Cost Reduction & Accelerated ROI
Radware's ADC-VX ensures fast ROI achieved by significant CAPEX and OPEX reduction. With Radware's ADC-VX, the business needs less ADC hardware to support ADC requirements, reducing the operational costs of real estate, power, cooling and spare parts. Consequently, the ADC-VX significantly reduces product service costs compared to multiple dedicated ADC devices.
Radware's Virtual Application Delivery Infrastructure (VADI)
ADC-VX is a key component in Radware's VADI architecture which transforms computing resources, ADC and virtualization services into an integrated, agile and scalable Virtual Application Delivery Infrastructure (VADI). It is designed to bridge across the underlying hardware resources and to cater for the various application needs in terms of SLA and performance predictability while delivering maximal agility to the application delivery space. Radware VADI transforms standard application delivery infrastructure into a virtual application delivery control plane.
Complete Application SLA Assurance with Next Generation Service
ADC-VX solution is built on Radware's Alteon NG platforms - our next-generation application delivery solution. It's the industry's only ADC built from the ground up to ensure application SLA at all times. Alteon NG innovatively leverages several next-generation services that are not available in any other ADC on the market.
- Architecturally designed to ensure application SLA by delivering resource reservation and full isolation per application
- Delivers application SLA monitoring capabilities, via the built-in application performance monitoring (APM) module, providing SLA visibility by application, transaction or location
- Accelerates application response time for higher conversion rates, revenues and productivity, by leveraging FastView, the industry's most advanced web performance optimization (WPO) technology
- Ensures application SLA even under attack by integrating Radware's Attack Mitigation System (AMS) and signaling attack information upon detection to mitigate it at the perimeter
Hosting and Cloud ADC Services Solution:
Radware's Application Delivery Controller (ADC) Technology enables cloud and hosting businesses to offer scale-out, high-availability, health-monitoring and application acceleration services to their customers.
Traditional hosting and cloud infrastructures are required to offer their customers solutions to overcome challenges associated with the offpremise hosting of business applications and the subsequent lack of control over the compute infrastructure hosting these applications. Radware's solution enables providers to offer scale-out services and highly available application hosting and additional application performance services to their customers. In addition, it offers cloud burst, cloud disaster recovery and cloud based application developing and testing services to enhance the enterprise application lifecycle options.
The Challenge
Cloud computing is quickly becoming a common option for offering cost effective hosting services, effectively making computational power available for a much greater number of use cases and applications. However, the need for highly reliable, high performance service guarantees is not going away, further more with cloud technologies organizations are looking to find a way and improve the economics of compute while retaining the level of service they have gotten used to in their internal data centers. Cloud and hosting providers are challenged to offer their customers a hybrid approach in which high assurance and high economics merge.
Application Delivery in general and load balancing in particular are fundamental components of the hosted virtual application. Effectively, the systems composition that constructs applications running in virtually hosted or cloud infrastructures must use the load balancer as an integral component of the solution. Load balancers enable scaling out of cloud applications by adding virtual machines to an application, and build high-availability into applications by continuously healthmonitoring the virtual machines and forwarding traffic only to healthy ones. That being the case, it is a basic requirement for cloud providers to offer load balancing services as part of their overall infrastructure.
For Enterprise Applications, basic load balancing is not sufficient. Enterprise applications and web applications in particular, are typically not designed out of the box to cope with today's QoE requirements. End users connect from a variety of locations globally with a variety of devices over a variety of networks. Controlling the experience resulting from the variety of application usage patterns as well as dealing with application lifecycle related changes, requires advanced application level capabilities. Some of these capabilities are application acceleration, caching of static content, application L7 policy enforcement, and security functionality. Enterprise applications are commonly built with these capabilities implemented on an ADC front ending the application.
Cloud and hosting providers are required to offer solutions that meet the capability and price requirements of business customer's at large scale with native multi-tenant support and very operationally efficient management systems. Consequently the ability to add advanced ADC functionality into existing load balancing services, potentially as a premium service offering, is valuable in creating additional revenue streams and building differentiated solutions to better fit the provider customers. Radware's Application Delivery Fabric uniquely addresses the cloud and hosting provider requirements by presenting an opportunity to increase revenues and attract more customers.
The Radware ADC Fabric Cloud and Hosting Solution
The solution enables providers to build their own basic load balancing farm supporting scale-out and high availability for hosted applications. Additionally, the solution offers a service level continuum allowing providers to move tenants from basic load balancing services on to advanced application delivery services with a variety of capabilities. At the heart of the Radware cloud and hosting application delivery solution is the ability to rollout application delivery services, based on profiles which comprehensively represent the specific capabilities and capacity provided to the end users over multi-tenant, fully isolated, purpose built hardware, ADC-VX, and over commodity off –the- shelf virtualized hardware. The solution easily integrates into OSS and BSS tools with a RESTful API and plug-ins available for leading commercial cloud platforms. This integration makes the application delivery service operations, the management of all ADC resources, and server resources available for ADC services, very straightforward and intuitive. Cloud and hosting providers can easily scale their ADC service capacity by adding additional purpose built ADC-VX systems or by allocating additional general purpose, x86 based resource pools. Through Radware's Application Delivery Service Automation Plugin, vDirect, providers are relieved from managing all application delivery resources and interface only with an abstraction layer that natively responds to cloud and datacenter service requests and workflows.
The solution is comprised of the following Radware products:
- Radware Alteon ADC-VX – Industry leading ADC Virtualization technology running the industry's highest number of virtual ADC instances on a single platform. The ADC-VX platform offers full resource isolation, network isolation, fault isolation and management isolation between all virtual ADC instances best suiting the multi-tenant operation in a cloud environment. ADC VX is a core resource of the Radware ADC Fabric solution.
- Radware Alteon VA – fully capable enterprise grade Virtual ADC Appliance running over all major hypervisor platforms such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Open XEN, and RedHat KVM. The product runs the exact same firmware as the hardware versions of the Alteon ADC, providing a unified interface for management, operation and automation across the complete ADC fabric. Alteon VA is a resource in the Alteon ADC Fabric.
- Radware vDirect – Automating the processes related to the ADC services in the hosting and cloud infrastructure. ADC services include adding tenants using predefined application optimized templates or provider customized templates, in any deployment model onto the ADC fabric, activating services for tenants and migrating services or tenants across resources of the ADC fabric. vDirect simplifies the ongoing operations while flexibly integrating into the cloud & hosting provider management systems.
The following image illustrates the Radware ADC Fabric components in the cloud and Hosting datacenter.
| Service Model | Deployed Product | Description |
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| Assured Application Delivery | Alteon ADC-VX | Due to the industry leading virtual ADC instance density of the Alteon ADC-VX platform, and in turn the economical pricing of each virtual ADC instance, ADC-VX is the ideal platform to offer cloud and hosting tenants a fully isolated high assurance ADC service which can either be provider managed or tenant managed. |
| Flexible Application Delivery | Alteon VA | For less demanding and more flexible usage environments, the Alteon VA can offer the ideal solution. It is ideally suited to offer very granular application control and configurations are fully compatible with assured application delivery services for future migration. |
| Shared Load Balancing | Alteon ADC-VX | For basic load balancing services, in which the tenant is assigned an IP address representing its application, a shared load balancing hardware appliance, running virtual IP per customer application, offers the best price performance combination. Alteon ADC-VX technology allows providers to group services flexibly and isolates service environments from one another. |
According to the above service models, Radware has developed a unique business model by which more flexible pricing, billing and licensing options, offering better alignment with end user billing, is available for cloud and hosting providers. Additionally, according to the specific service offerings of the cloud and hosting provider, Radware offers joining the Cloud partner program which provides further benefits.
Features and Benefits
The key benefits of the Radware ADC Fabric Solution for Cloud and Hosting Providers are the ability to offer a very broad spectrum of load balancing and application delivery services to its customer while maintaining the ability to very specifically define the solution sets that make most sense to the specific cloud and hosting business. Such flexibility enables better addressing end user requirements, better alignment of services to the requirements and the potential to create additional revenues through offering high SLA services at a very economical price point.
Some of the solution features are listed as follows:
- Granular, operator defined Application Delivery Service definition
- Highly scalable Application Delivery Controller Fabric
- T hroughput Capacity
- T enant Support
- N etwork Services
- Intuitive integration and Service Automation in Cloud and Hosting Infrastructure
- Highly Scalable, Dense multi-tenant ADC Appliances
- Very broad hypervisor technology support to suit your cloud platform
- Identical functionality and operations model across form factors and service delivery models
Summary
Understanding the close relationship between cloud infrastructure services and managed hosting services with regards to how they apply to enterprise customers that are considering adopting cloud services, Radware offers the most scalable high assurance multi-tenant application delivery services platform in the market. With Radware's ADC Fabric solutions, providers can offer a broad variety of load balancing and Application delivery services custom defined to address their customers' requirements. Radware's solution supports easy migration of customer service levels with a minimal operational overhead on the provider operation. By offering a variety of services, the providers can increase the revenue per customer and the commitment level of their customers.
In alignment with the hosting and cloud infrastructure markets, Radware extends special partnership programs and uses a special business model with cloud and hosting providers. Radware's cloud and hosting business model reduces risk and upfront investment by providers while enabling creation of custom and granular application delivery service profile offerings to the provider customers.
Documentation:
Download the Radware Alteon 10000 Datasheet (PDF).