Load Balancing Firewall
There are a number of network appliances such as the dedicated firewalls and VPN termination devices that perform very important enforcement functions and provide the user with special privacy functions. These availabilities make possible the protection of the vital IT infrastructure from unauthorized, abusive and malicious usage and probe.
However, as a number of networks have increased their existent performance with the industry specific deployment of Gigabit and now the '10 Gigabit Ethernet' technologies, these devices have ended up becoming system bottlenecks. They are now victims of slowing network performance and degrading and wasted user experience.
The need is to ensure that more than one security appliance should be deployed, to alleviate the existent performance degradation and the web traffic needs to be effectively managed across all the internal components.
Firewall technology:
One of the dedicated options available to the end users of the technology is the Foundry's Firewall Load Balancing solution. The solution is available on the special ServerIron switches. The Firewall Load Balancing solution provides effective and timely load balancing across a number of in-built security devices. The installation of the industry specific Firewall Load Balancing solution has resulted in the much needed intelligent web traffic distribution. Firewall load balancing ensures that all end users can access and build networks that are extremely secure. The networks thus created are also competent enough to achieve the desired scale within the exploding and enhanced Internet web traffic. Firewall features:
Foundry's ServerIron� is a special product and belongs to the family of web switches that provide the expected high performance firewall load balancing is capable of. The up-gradation comes along with some very special add-on features, typical of the firewall technology: - End-to-End path, regular system health checks to monitor the firewall health and functionality. - Dedicated and effective Load balancing for Layer 2 and Layer 3 firewalls. - The essential support for the industry specific static and dynamic routing environments. - Efficient Multi-zone� firewall load balancing which enables the end user to be able to deploy the DMZ common within the dedicated web server farm. - The special ability to group and allocate standard firewalls on the basis of the application types identified. - Dedicated built-in and Secure Shell interface and also, the functionality possible with Cisco-syntax compatible Access Control Lists or ACL and extended ACL. - Stateful and stateless load balancing of the web traffic. - A load balance of up to 16,000,000 concurrent sessions, which is very user specific and an absolute essential for business applications. - Extended and robust support of up to 32 firewall or VPN devices. This helps to provide the end user with unmatched scalability, even in the case of some of the most demanding networks. - The special 'Certified to Load Balance' Check Point� VPN-1 and Firewall-1® Gateway products, which guarantee the genuine firewall application and real value within the system.
Load Balancing
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