Introducing: Alteons Integrated Service Director ISD

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IntroducingAlteons Integrated Service
Director (ISD)
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Alteons is Focused
Server Processing
Network Processing
L4-7
WWW protocols
L1-3
Traditional processing
on the convergence of Content-intelligent
switching and Web computing applications
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Introducing the Alteon iSD

• Purpose-built service
  delivery platform to accelerate
  compute-intensive Web applications

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e-Commerce Issues

• Security attacks on the rise
• SSL processing killing servers
• Persistence nearly impossible
• Mega- and Micro-Proxies
• HTTPS Cookies not visible
• Content-intelligent switching cant be applied
  to secure flows

Source
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New iSD Products

• Two flavors
• Alteon iSD SSL accelerator
• Alteon iSD Akamaizer
• Seamless integration with Alteon Web switches
• Non-intrusive
• Dynamic scalability
• Up to 32 iSD units can be clustered
• Automatic failover, N1 redundancy
• 10/100/1000 Mbps switch connect

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iSDs vs Traditional Appliances

• Part of a system solution, not a point product
• Seamless integration with Web switches
• Enables user- and content-intelligent switching
• Not situated on the data path
• No added latency
• No added single-point-of-failure
• Sees only relevant traffic
• Optimum performance
• Scalable performance and capacity

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Alteon iSD SSL

• Speeds server-based SSL processing 5 to 250
  times
• Up to 12,000 SSL sessions per second
• Maintains session context between HTTP HTTPS
• Enables content-intelligent switching for secure
  Web sessions
• Secure management from Alteon Web switches
• Certificate and key management
• Supports 256 certificates/keys per iSD-SSL
• Supports SSL v2.0 and 3.0
• Volume shipment in September

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How It WorksIntegrating Alteons iSD-SSL
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Shopping Cart PersistenceWithout Manual Server
Configurations

• iSD-SSL makes encrypted cookie visible to Web
  switch
• Web switch can associate shopping cart (HTTP) and
  payment (HTTPS) sessions from same user (cookie)
• No more lost shopping carts!!!
• User cookie is the most accurate persistence
  indicator
• Due to mega- and micro-proxies

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Content-Intelligent SwitchingFor Secure Web
Traffic

• L7 information encrypted in SSL requests
• iSD-SSL makes encrypted URL and cookie visible to
  Web switch
• URL switching directs requests to server with
  correct content
• Cookie switching directs user to different
  resources for preferential services