Edgenexus Load Balancer/ADC

The Edgenexus Load Balancer/ADC is a solution designed for load balancing and application delivery control. According to the vendor, it is tailored for small to large enterprises, making it suitable for businesses of varying sizes. This product is used by IT professionals, network administrators, DevOps teams, e-commerce companies, and financial institutions, among others, to enhance application performance, improve availability, and ensure efficient resource utilization.

Key Features

Layer 4-7 Load Balancing: According to the vendor, this load balancer provides comprehensive load balancing capabilities for Layer 4-7 protocols. It distributes incoming traffic across multiple servers to optimize resource utilization and improve application performance and availability.

Pre-Authorization and Single Sign-On: The vendor claims that this product offers pre-authentication and single sign-on (SSO) capabilities. It enhances security by authenticating users before granting access to protected resources and simplifies the user experience by allowing them to authenticate once for multiple applications.

Reverse Proxy: According to the vendor, this product acts as a reverse proxy server. It handles incoming client requests and forwards them to appropriate backend servers, enhancing security by hiding backend server details from external clients. It also provides load balancing and traffic management capabilities for reverse proxy scenarios.

Advanced Server Health Monitoring: The vendor states that this load balancer monitors the health and availability of backend servers in real-time. It ensures server responsiveness through various health checks, such as HTTP, TCP, and ICMP, and automatically removes unhealthy servers from the load balancing pool to maintain optimal performance.

Web Application Firewall: According to the vendor, this product protects web applications from common security threats. It implements security policies to filter and block malicious traffic, safeguarding against SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS). It also provides comprehensive logging and reporting capabilities for security audits.

Powerful SSL Offload: The vendor claims that this load balancer offloads SSL/TLS encryption and decryption tasks from backend servers, improving performance. It supports advanced SSL features, such as SSL termination and SSL bridging, while enabling efficient SSL certificate management and renewal.

Application Acceleration: According to the vendor, this product accelerates application performance by offloading resource-intensive tasks like content caching and compression. It reduces server load and response times, resulting in a better user experience, and optimizes network bandwidth utilization by minimizing data transfer.

Traffic Manipulation: The vendor states that this product offers granular control over application traffic through the flightPATH traffic manipulation engine. Users can create custom traffic rules to handle complex application delivery scenarios, including actions like content rewriting, request routing, and response modification.

Content Caching: According to the vendor, this load balancer caches frequently accessed content to reduce server load and improve response times. It increases application scalability by serving cached content directly from the load balancer and supports various caching policies, including time-based expiration and cache control headers.