Coyote Point’s EQ/OS 10 was designed as a foundation architecture for a new generation of Application Delivery solutions. Beyond a specific feature set, the EQ/OS 10 platform is designed with a robust and flexible configuration tool kit in order to keep pace with the complexity and rapidly evolving IT network environments.

Equalizer Load Balancers and Application Delivery Controllers have a well-deserved reputation for being easy to deploy. The forward-looking architecture of the EQ/OS 10 platform compliments that simplicity with the ability to interoperate in advanced network environments. As a result, EQ/OS 10 gives equal weight to networking flexibility and application traffic management.

Coyote Point leveraged 12 years and 10 generations of application delivery software experience to design the EQ/OS 10 network stack to meet both existing and anticipated needs:

• Advanced topologies: Coyote Point’s customers deploy our products in an amazing variety of environments. Some users prefer to deploy a “single arm” configuration using only a single network interface. Hosting and datacenter operators often deploy dozens of VLANs, each with multiple IP networks. EQ/OS 10 was designed to support both types of users, and those whose needs fall between the extremes.
• Role-based management: EQ/OS 10 treats the physical and logical network as interrelated objects, all of which can be managed with full role-based permissions. Network and application engineers can cooperate to build network/server environments that meet their departmental needs. In a product that bridges network and application disciplines, these management capabilities are a must.
• Full IPv6 support: Ready or not IPv6 has arrived. The exhaustion of the IPv4 address space makes IPv6 a requirement for any IT equipment purchase. EQ/OS 10 meets this need head on with a dual stack offering simultaneous support for IPv6 and IPv4. For our customers this means that both user facing applications and administrative functions are IPv6 ready and allow for transition to IPv6 at your own pace. To go a step further, EQ/OS 10 users who don’t yet have IPv6 connectivity from their ISPs can take advantage of Coyote Point’s “Instant IPv6” tunnel feature.

Coyote Point continues to lead the pack in delivering an enterprise-grade foundation technology for Load Balancing, Application Delivery and Acceleration solutions that are powerful, flexible and easy to use.

EQ/OS 10 Network & Connectivity features:

• VLAN capabilities: 4096 802.1Q Tagged VLANs on up to 22 physical interfaces
• Multi-gateway support: Multiple default gateways, independent source and destination address routing policies and contexts.
• Inter-subnet Routing: policy based network packet flow control with explicit ACL filtering capabilities.
• Multi-net support: Instantiate multiple contiguous and discontiguous networks on any VLAN
• IPv6 Support: IPv6 supported for all Layer 7 cluster objects as well as all administrative/monitoring protocols (HTTP/S, SSH, SNMP, DNS, NTP). Supports mixed-mode topologies with servers on IPv4 and clusters on IPv6 and vice-versa. Servers and clusters may be dual-stacked.
• TCP/IP Optimization: TCP segmentation offload, IP fragmentation offload, TCP “FIN cache” optimization.