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Foundry Networks' ServerIron Internet Web Switches provides high performance, Layer 2 through 7 switching, enabling network managers to control and manage today's exploding web transactions, web applications and e-Commerce traffic flows. ServerIron eases escalating Internet traffic overload, reduces the burden of server farm management, and allows the entire web facility to scale to its fullest potential.
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Key Benefits and Features
ServerIron supports 4 major Internet traffic management applications:
- Reliable Server Load-balancing - load balance web traffic across multiple servers while continuously monitoring server, application and content health. This enhances overall reliability and availability of the services while simultaneously ensuring server farm accessibility.
- Global Server Load Balancing - distribute services transparently across multiple web sites and server farm locations and balance the traffic across those sites/servers on a global basis while monitoring web site/serer and application health. By directing the client to the best site for the fastest content delivery, ServerIron enhances overall web experience and reduces bandwidth costs.
- Firewall Load Balancing - distribute Internet traffic load across multiple firewalls, this increasing overall firewall throughput, performance and eliminating the firewall as a potential "single point of failure".
- Transparent Cache Switching - increase overall web caching solution resiliency by balancing web traffic across multiple caches in server farm.
Pricing
One-time setup: $1,000
Monthly: $995 for 2 ports/servers
$500 for additional port/server