Simple Cost-Effective Web Acceleration with WEBaXcel

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WEBaXcel Appliance

The new WEBaXcel Appliance is an advanced web acceleration product designed to optimize the performance of your web-based applications and downloads. The WEBaXcel accelerates web connectivity across one or more Internet links (two or more broadband links are recommended for best performance).

It will dramatically speed up web sessions and downloads and can work with either a single Internet connection, or up to three connections – although multiple connections are recommended.

Reliability

How crticial is Internet access to your business?  The WEBaXcel appliance ensures that all connectivity out to the Internet stays up and running 24/7 by automatically failing over to a secondary inexpensive broadband link.

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XRoads Networks: Competitive Advantages

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The following is a list of advantages that the EdgeXOS platform delivers over its competitors in the market, specifically in the areas of WAN Load Balancing, QoS & Rate Shaping, and Site2Site VPN Optimization.
 
Designed for scalability… The Edge appliances typically have up to twice the performance of similarly priced solutions. These performance statistics are based on the route processing capability, the amount of system memory, and the report storage capabilities of the appliance.

WAN Load Balancing Solutions:

Multi-link connectivity is XRoads Networks’ core technology. These unique innovations in system design and architecture enable the Edge platform to deliver key advantages:

Vector Routing Algorithm™

  • Policy-Based Application Routing

ActiveDNS™ – Inbound Balancing / Failover

  • Selected Application/Server Balancing

 Best Path Routing™ – With SLA Reporting

  • Reliable Session Persistence

Multilink Outage Detection™  

  • Instant Link Failover w/Administrative Controls 

Simple Drop-In Installation

  • Up to 10000 domain record support
  • Up to 1000 NAT entries
  • Up to 256 secondary addresses per link
  • Up to 100 email alerts
  • Solid-state architecture
  • Gigabit network interface support (PRO/XL Series)
  • VPN / VoIP pass-through support
  • No reboot after configuration update
  • Easy to use web-GUI interface
  • Remote SSH-based CLI interface
  • Text-based configuration files
  • Built-in WAN/LAN graphical reporting
  • Built-in QoS & application prioritization
  • Built-in packet sniffer and syslog

QoS & Rate Shaping Solutions:

Expanding on these routing policy solutions, XRoads Networks has developed a full featured traffic shaping policy feature set. With the ability to control network connectivity through rate-limiting, prioritization, and bandwidth reservation.

XFlow Session Classification 

  • Application-Based Rate Shaping (HTTP, Email, FTP)
  • Policy-Based Rate-Limiting (User, Group, Subnet)
  • AutoFlow Shaping (Apply shaping based on utilization levels)
  • P2P/IM Blocking
  • VoIP Bandwidth Reservation
  • VoIP Prioritization
  • MAC-based IP address assignment (WISP)
  • 12-Levels Of Prioritization
  • 16-Levels Of QoS/ToS/DiffServ
  • Up to 4096 shaping policies
  • Up to 512 shaping groups
  • Up to 10000 monitored IP hosts
  • Up to 155Mbps of sustained rate-limiting
  • Built-in XFlow 3D graphical reporting
  • Build-in policy-based statistical reporting
  • Automated weekly usage reports
  • Automated monthly usage statistics (CSV format)

Meshed VPN Link Sharing (MVLS™)

As connectivity to remote offices and data centers has become more critical, so have the methodologies of ensuring those connections. Our MVLS technology optimizes site-to-site connectivity through simultaneously improving performance and reliability.

  • Secure Site2Site Optimization
  • Flexible SSL-based tunnels ensure easy deployment
  • Automated tunnel monitoring
  • Tunnel failover within 10 seconds
  • Tunnel failback within 10 seconds
  • 99.999% uptime for remote connectivity
  • Fully meshed tunnel failover (two concurrent outages)
  • Multi-tunnel session balancing
  • Usage-based route selection
  • Advanced tunnel routing policies
  • Secure 3DES encryption

To learn more about XRoads Networks‘ solutions please go to:

http://www.LoadBalancerSolutions.com/xroads-networks.aspx

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Major BIND DNS Vulnerability does NOT affect the XRoads Networks EdgeXOS platform

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XRoads Networks confirmed today that it is not effected by the recent security vulnerability (find details here) found in most [tag]BIND DNS server[/tag] implementations.

The EdgeXOS platform does not use BIND, unlike some of our competitors, and thus this vulnerability on its face does not directly impact our ActiveDNS solution.

However because of the severe nature of the issue, our engineering team also confirmed that our own ActiveDNS implementation does not suffer from the problems found in the BIND implementation.

A spoke person at [tag]XRoads Networks[/tag] commented that “Our customers should feel confident that their DNS services, based on our ActiveDNS technology, is secure and not subject to this major BIND vulnerability. For customers looking to find a non-BIND solution for their inbound WAN load balancing requirements, we encourage them to take a look at our product offerings.”

For more information about XRoads Networks Unified Bandwidth Management solutions please go to: www.loadbalancersolutions.com/xroads-networks.aspx

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XRoads Networks Announces Their FatPipe Replacement Program (Up to 10% Cash Back)

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“Go with the company that assesses risks for Fortune 500 organizations around the world, The Bohan Group, who selected the EdgeXOS platform after looking at Fatpipe,  F5, Radware and others.  Any company with a distributed network infrastructure should  consider this product.”

Program Overview:


The ProblemFatpipe has announced a new end-of-life program which requests existing customers to replace their hardware with a new appliance after just 3 years.  This is essentially a forklift upgrade at a significant cost.

The Solution  - Replace the Fatpipe with an XRoads Networks appliance.

The Results - With an EdgeXOS platform there is no forklift upgrade every 3 years (our MTBF = 7/yrs) and we have a number of unique features not offered by the Fatpipe products, including enhanced shaping, and detailed reporting.

The XRoads Networks Solution:


XRoads Networks delivers over 99.999% uptime without the need of a forklift upgrade every three years..

The Challenge

Finding a solution to network redundancy and WAN load balancing for both inbound and outbound traffic.  Added benefits include enhanced traffic shaping with built-in detailed network reporting.  The solution must include session persistence and the ability to perform Best Path Routing to critical remote sites.  The solution must be SOLID STATE (no critical moving parts), and must provide built-in high availability in the unlikely event of a hardware failure.  The solution must be robust enough to handle at least 45Mbps of sustained throughput and be competitively priced with at least !ve Gigabit WAN interfaces.

The Solution

The EdgePRO/XL platforms not only solve the challenges above, but they do so in a manner which does not require forklift upgrades when new !rmware release comes out.  The EdgeXOS platform is flash-based, meaning that it is solid state and is highly flexible in terms of firmware upgrades.  XRoads Networks prides itself on having some of the most advanced capabilities in its class and has been a market leader in terms of features and functionality for over !ve years.  No other solution on the market today has a more extensive feature set.

Their solutions save organizations on the order of $2000-4000/hr. during an outage event, and increases throughput and application responsiveness during normal operating conditions.  The ROI and the product in general speak for themselves. 

For more information, please visit www.loadbalancersolutions.com/xroads-networks.aspx.

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