Using APA to Build a Screaming Fast Network Server Connection for HP-UX 11i v2 and v3

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Typical APA Applications
For network managers in need of an affordable solution to bandwidth management, the
APA product fills the bill because it offers Highly Available Gigabit bandwidth that is
fully compatible with existing Fast Ethernet or Gigabit networks.
Can you relate to this? The annual shareholder meeting is going along exceptionally well,
and the brilliant young CEO of your company has a room full of exuberant stockholders
hanging on every word. Without warning, your equally enthusiastic CEO deviates from
the prepared speech and begins to talk about the future of high bandwidth services. As
you strain to hear the details, a colleague pats you on the shoulder and quietly says, “Is
this awesome or what? I know we can depend on you to make this happen without
spending too much.”
APA’s broad range of features offer immediate solutions for applications such as:
• Fat Pipe Topologies: For enterprise and campus networks with multi-
gigabit backbones, APA link aggregates offer an affordable way to
maximize overall network performance and reliability at the server level.
• Web Access: The load balancing and automated fail-over features of APA offers
dial-up ISP and web hosting customers the highest levels of connectivity and
reliability. For dial-up users with a 56K modem, this means more responsive and
efficient downloads as well as significantly fewer “server not responding”
network error messages.
• Internet Merchants: For doing retail business over the Internet, deploying
APA offers an immediate way to enhance the online shopping experiences of their
site visitors. Thanks to APA’s load-balancing features, it will be easier for site
visitors to view more sales items during their session. Also, their purchase
transactions will execute in a more responsive and smoother manner, thereby
making their overall shopping experience a more pleasant one.
• Five Nines (99.999%) High Availability: APA’s automated link fail-over
feature eliminates single points of failure within link aggregates, thereby ensuring
the highest possible levels of network availability for customers with mission
critical requirements. In addition, when APA is used in conjunction with HP’s
MC/SG product you will achieve the highest levels of Network bandwidth, and
Server availability.
• Hi Volume Data Throughput: With a theoretical maximum of 32Gb per
single logical address, the throughput demands of large data warehouses, data
migrations and data backups are easily met with APA link aggregates.