Ethernet Switching Reference Guide

Features and Benefits

• Configuration is compatible with current

Alteon WebOS

• High-performance content-intelligent switching

• Server, Firewall, Cache, WAN Gateway, Virtual

Private Network, Wireless Application Protocol,

Real-Time streaming Protocol, Domain Name

Service and Intrusion Detection Server load

balancing

• Full inspection of URLs, cookies and any host

headers across multiple requests and responses

• TCP, UDP, HTTP, FTP, SSL, SMTP, LDAP, DNS, Radius,

WAP, RTSP, Telnet and NNTP and IP server load

balancing

• Application redirection for any traffic type,

including wireless

• Persistent connections using multiple Layer4-

Layer7 parameters

• Comprehensive server health checks enable

content verification and availability

• Gigabit-class, content-intelligent bandwidth

management enables SLAs and usage-based

services

• Response Time, Bandwidth, Link, Hash, Least

Connections, Maximum Connections and

Roundrobin load balancing metrics for

unparalleled infrastructure optimisation

• Full network address translation enables multi-

site load balancing and traffic redirection

• Global Server load balancing to distributed

servers based on health, user proximity, server

weights and response time

• Virtual Matrix Architecture enables dynamic

utilisation of all processors and memory

• Complete site redundancy via active-active,

active-standby, hot-standby and stateful fail over

for high availability

• Up to 1024 virtual servers per switch

• Up to 1024 application servers per switch

• Up to 1024 services per switch

• Up to 2K packet filtering rules per port

• Up to 2.000.000 L4-7 sessions per switch

Alteon Application Switch (AAS)

Ordering Information

For further information please contact your Local Nortel Networks Representative.