RADWARE/RND Networks Introduces FireProof: The Industry's First Hardware Load Balancing Solution For Multiple Firewall Environments.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 1998--RADWARE/RND Networks Tuesday unleashed the power of FireProof fire·proof adj. Impervious or resistant to damage by fire. tr.v. fire·proofed, fire·proof·ing, fire·proofs To make fireproof. Verb 1. , the industry's first non-proprietary dynamic load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them system providing traffic optimization for multiple firewalls and other security devices. Users are no longer locked into a single vendor firewall solution, as FireProof is capable of connecting thousands of firewalls regardless of vendor type. "FireProof's powerful load balancing capabilities, combined with its fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. features, offer the market a solution with no single point of failure," stated Roy Zisapel, president of RADWARE Ltd. "In addition, it offers any large organization a cost-effective growth path for increasing firewalls, alleviating the need to be dedicated to any one vendor," added Zisapel. "FireProof adds a new level of survivability sur·viv·a·ble adj. 1. Capable of surviving: survivable organisms in a hostile environment. 2. That can be survived: a survivable, but very serious, illness. , scalability and redundancy to traditional firewall solutions, by allowing firewalls to be inserted and deleted at will," stated Mike Long, vice president of RND RND Round RND Random RND Research and Development RND Red Nose Day RND Rassemblement National Démocratique (French: Democratic National Rally; political party, various countries) RND Royal Naval Division Networks. "Firewalls have traditionally represented network bottlenecks and single points of network failure. FireProof intelligently balances traffic between any number of firewalls, continually monitoring each box for health allowing network firewall resources to be dynamically scaled to meet user demands," continued Long. FireProof operates at Layer 2 (mac addresses) and not traditional IP addresses, allowing complete compatibility with transparent devices such as firewalls and routers. In addition, FireProof allows multiple firewalls to be used simultaneously providing a painlessly scalable solution for increased user bandwidth requirements Bandwidth requirements (communications) The channel bandwidths needed to transmit various types of signals, using various processing schemes. Every signal observed in practice can be expressed as a sum (discrete or over a frequency continuum) of sinusoidal . Legacy equipment can be retained and heterogeneous units can be added to the firewall farm reducing total cost of ownership. Since users are pointed at the FireProof, network changes go unnoticed, simplifying network administration. FireProof provides full fault tolerance between firewalls, eliminating the need for additional hot standby A hardware device that is connected to the computer or computer complex and remains powered on. It is ready to take over immediately if the primary unit fails. A hot standby may refer to a complete computer system; for example, a standby server, or a component in a computer such as a units. Should a unit fail, the FireProof system will redirect all requests to an alternative firewall, providing users with uninterrupted service. Redundant FireProofs can be added to the network eliminating any single point of failure. RADWARE's FireProof solution is available today, starting at $6500. About RADWARE/RND Networks: RADWARE/RND pioneered IP load balancing with the Web Server Director and the Cache Server A dedicated network server or a service within a server that caches Web pages. Cache servers speed up access to information that has been retrieved previously by the same user or by someone else. See Web cache, origin server, ICP and CARP. Director. With the addition of FireProof, RADWARE becomes the only company that offers a complete local and distributed IP load balancing solution for all Internet/Intranet and Extranet environments. RADWARE Ltd. is a member of the $500 million RAD Group The RAD Group is a collection of independent companies that develop, manufacture and market solutions for diverse segments of the networking and telecommunications industry. of companies. RADWARE's award-winning flagship product, the Web Server Director, is the system of choice for numerous Fortune 500 companies. RADWARE was founded in 1997 as a spin-off of RND Networks Inc. to handle the increasing demand for IP load balancing products. For more information, contact RADWARE/RND Networks at: 201/512-9771 or visit the company's Web site at http://www.radwareusa.com. |
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