When delivering critical applications, if availability is priority one, application performance is a close second. When your applications perform poorly, the user's experience suffers; frustrations will rise and abandon rates will skyrocket. Accelerating applications a key to providing services that are predictable, reliable and consistent.

EQ/OS 10 Delivers:

• Optimized Server Load Balancing
• Efficient Server Communication that Reduces Server Workloads
• Increased Performance for secure SSL and HTTPS applications
• Reduced Bandwidth and Faster Application Response

Managing Performance with Visibility

Without visibility into application performance it's impossible to know if youv'e achieved your goals. If there's a bottleneck, you'll need good information if you hope to isolate and resolve the problem. EQ/OS 10 provides administrators with centralized management tools for viewing and monitoring application performance. But visibility and management are only part of our performance story. When you can visualize application data flows you can to accelerate applications by setting up traffic management rules that minimize application response times. Application servers can be optimized for content delivery and load balancing policies then intelligently distribute user traffic to the most appropriate server, with the least load and fastest response times.

Accelerate Performance with Server Offload

The most efficient way to guarantee that applications are performing at their peak is to reduce or eliminate any server workload not directly involved in processing application specific code. EQ/OS 10 enables offloading server "busy" work so that servers can devote resources that would otherwise be consumed by operating system network processing, SSL handshaking and encryption and data compression to rendering applications. Coyote Point's Equalizer ADC products take advantage of EQ/OS 10's acceleration tools to provide dramatic increases in application performance. Enabling technologies like HTTP multiplexing, which allows a single server connection to carry requests from multiple clients significantly reduces server CPU and memory utilization with the result that you can deploy fewer servers and deliver a better user experience.

SSL Offload delivers Security and Speed

Servers running high security applications like banking, e-commerce, and healthcare often struggle under the computational load imposed by SSL protocols. Increasing SSL key lengths impose exponential workloads on servers, up to 8 times more CPU cycles as compared to 1024 bit keys. SSL offload handles the CPU-intensive SSL handshake and encryption process and eliminates the SSL processing burden on web servers resulting in a 10x (or more) performance boost over standard server hardware.

EQ/OS 10 encryption capabilities support both software and hardware-based SSL offload and acceleration. For low to moderate SSL transaction environments, EQ/OS 10's software-based SSL encryption offload capabilities provide a positive impact. Moving from SSL offload to SSL Acceleration, EQ/OS 10 supports offload capabilities Coyote Point's Xcel™ co-processors for high performance offloading of SSL handshake and encryption. Xcel hardware offload is available in the Equalizer E450GX and E650GX. The E650GX can process an impressive 14,000 HTTPS requests per second.

Compression Accelerates Performance

Compressing HTTP content is “all gain and no pain”. This completely transparent technology reduces bandwidth requirements for dynamically generated web application and content delivery. Our powerful web compression capability decreases the bandwidth required to deliver HTTP content and reduces latency by reducing the number of packets required to deliver web pages and other content. Equalizer E650GX includes the Express™ offload co-processor to compress HTTP content. Express utilizes the standard gzip decompression capabilities built into all commonly used web browsers to compress server generated data before it's placed on the wire.

Performance Results

The result: faster server response times and a better user experience with secure and efficient processing of your Web traffic. Both you and your users win as page load times improve up to 5x while bandwidth requirements plummet as much as 50%. Independent tests confirm that Coyote Point's Equalizer series appliances deliver more than twice the performance and throughput at less than half the price of other industry-leading load balancing and traffic management systems. With unmatched price/performance you have the reliability, scalability, and performance you need to deliver the highest levels of availability with an unrivaled user experience.