Today's Web traffic management solutions are primarily focused on Web site optimization and Web traffic coordination without identifying or limiting Web traffic. This makes high performance products such as the integrated Array Web Traffic Manager (Array 1000 and Array 500 series) the ideal solution for traditional Web sites.

Until today traditional architectures for high-traffic web sites consisted of multiple pieces of hardware. Between the edge routers and web server farm, it was and is not uncommon to find an expanding collection of free-standing load balancers, firewalls, SSL accelerators, caching devices, CDN servers for rewriting content, and more - purchased from a number of different vendors. This hodge-podge of hardware consumed prodigious amounts of not only your IT budget, but also precious rack space and staff time - commodities that are always in short supply. Efficient scaling options were practically nonexistent. Interoperability and latency issues (as IP packets were shuffled back and forth among boxes) were vexing. Further, troubleshooting was made far more difficult by finger-pointing among the various vendors.

The Array 1000 and Array 500 series are designed from the ground up for integrated Web traffic management and include seven essential networking functions into a single streamlined system: Server Load Balancing, Caching, Global Server Load Balancing, SSL Acceleration, Content Rewrite, Webwall for Web security and Clustering technology. Using Array's high-performance SpeedStack™ network packet processing technology, requests traverse the Array's TCP/IP networking stack only once for all functions without requiring redundant TCP/HTTP processing for individual functions.

This tightly coupled TCP/HTTP request management reduces latency, improves the efficiency of backend servers, and enables the all-in-one Array system to integrate seven essential networking functions with performance that surpasses other integrated devices and conventional point solutions such as load balancers, content switches, caches, and SSL accelerators. Array's integrated approach also ensures that caching is fully functional for both HTTP and SSL traffic, which is not possible if a customer has deployed point solutions without making and investment in additional load balancers.

Array Networks' integrated platform architecture is a leading example of an important trend in server acceleration and traffic management in which platform architectures capable of performing many functions in an integrated and consistent fashion will start to displace single-function, stand-alone appliances. Array not only provides an integrated platform design, but also prices functions on an as-needed basis, and opens the underlying ArrayOS API to third-party developers. All of this provides an attractive vehicle for building better composite solutions, keeping pace with the growing importance of the Internet.

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B. Array SP (Security Proxy) - Secure Web Traffic Management Platform

With the migration of applications to the Web, employees (local and remote), vendors and strategic partners of Enterprise organizations can now fully enjoy the benefits of easy, remote access of corporate information. IDC for example predicts that Web services will create a market of $1.6 billion in 2004 and $34 billion by 2007.

This access, however, cannot be managed by current Web traffic management tools alone. After all, while tools that are optimized for Web performance are powerful, they do not effectively address Enterprise security needs. Corporate information must be optimized for secure access that is authenticated, authorized, and most importantly, audited.

Array Networks offers a new class of Web traffic managers specifically designed with the needs of the Enterprise in mind. Optimized for security, but understanding the importance of performance, the Array SP enables corporate IT managers to effectively deliver corporate information to only those who have been authorized to receive it without requiring complex and proprietary client-side software. Equally important, the Array SP transparently handles the divide traditionally associated with internal corporate networks and the Internet through its Web Resource Technology.

Based on a security platform (Array Security Proxy), Array's security hardened technology is the first secure, end-to-end Web traffic management solution that allows for non-disruptive network integration, user-friendly administration and integrates proven Array technology such as ArrayOS™, SpeedStack™, and Webwall technology.

Bringing trusted authentication, authorization, accounting, Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Web Resource Mapping technology for the extended private network thus reflecting the global move of security from edge-to-edge to an end-to-end model, Array Networks offers the first secure Web Traffic Manager in the industry.

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