Support for IPv6 is on the Equalizer product roadmap and is currently under development. We expect to release a version of the Equalizer software that supports IPv6 sometime in 2010.

Equalizer can be configured to be PCI compliant and pass a PCI compliance test. Our sales engineers can help you determine the best architecture for PCI compliance.

You can configure a custom HTTP header to be sent to the server OR you can use a unique port on the server side. These options are documented in the user's guide.

Direct Server Return is a feature that allows your servers to send response packets directly to clients, bypassing Equalizer as a gateway. This can increase capacity dramatically for certain applications such as streaming audio and video. DSR is supported for layer-4 clusters on all Equalizer models.

Not necessarily. If your application needs to see the client's source IP address then you will need to configure the 'spoofing' option and you'll need to use the Equalizer as your gateway. If not and source-natting the inbound traffic is ok, then you can turn off spoofing and it isn’t necessary to change your gateway.

Yes, with Equalizer’s responders you can issue temporary or permanent redirects. These can be used to provide continued support of legacy customer bookmarks, or used to redirect traffic to alternate content, an HTTPS cluster for instance. Responders can also be used for our ‘Sorry Server’ functionality. This allows you to deliver a predefined response to connections, for instance when all servers defined for a specific cluster are down from a health check perspective, you can deliver a planned or unplanned maintenance page, and not have to dedicate a server to this function.

Yes, we support multi-tier application architectures. Tech notes are available describing different types of configurations.

Yes, alerts are available via email and/or through an SNMP notification on E350-650 systems.

Yes, all of our Equalizer products support HA peering.

Equalizer can be configured to perform ping and/or layer 4-7 protocol checks by default, but we also have more in depth probing capabilities with ACV – where we invoke a response from the application or service then parse the results for specific values that you define. We also support Server Agents and VLB health checking which communicates with VMware infrastructure.

The Express^TM Compression hardware, preinstalled in E650GX models, provides GZIP compression for HTTP content.

With Express enabled, HTML pages, text files, and other compressible data are GZIP compressed before being forwarded to the client. The result is that the amount of data needed to fully render a web page or deliver complete content is reduced by up to 6X. The client experiences faster page loads, and data center bandwidth utilization is substantially reduced.

The type and size of data that is compressed can be configured via the Administrative Interface.

Coyote Point has been selling application acceleration devices since 1999. Since then our customers have deployed over 8,500 Equalizer appliances with more coming online every month.

Coyote Point is now the leading provider of Load Balancing and Application acceleration technology to the Mid-Market.
We look forward to our next 10 years!

Equalizer model E650GX provides two SFP fiber optic connectors that can be configured for use on the internal or external interfaces.

Equalizer is not a firewall appliance. Equalizer is usually installed behind a firewall.

Yes. The changes to US Day Light Savings Time were addressed in Release 7.2.3e in 2007. All current releases of Equalizer have been updated accordingly.

Yes. The Equalizer E350, E450, and E650 can load balance SSL connections at Layer 7 or at Layer 4; the E250 support Layer 4 only. At Layer 7, Equalizer performs all SSL handshaking, encryption, and decryption; this frees your servers from this resource-intensive task. Equalizer E450 and E650 also support Coyote Point's optional Xcel II SSL accelerator hardware. Xcel offloads encryption/decryption operations from Equalizer's CPU so that more resources are available for load balancing. At Layer 4 SSL traffic is passed through Equalizer with no SSL offloading -- i.e., servers must perform all SSL handshaking, encryption, and decryption.

Yes. Your 8x5 support is active in whatever time zone you've registered.

Yes. You will need a licensed Equalizer unit with an add-on Envoy license at each location that hosts an Envoy Geographic Site. A single license covers both units in a failover pair located at any one site.

Envoy Geographic Server Load Balancing (GSLB) software is a separately licensed feature that allows users to extend Equalizer's load balancing in an Active-Active configuration between multiple networks or data centers.

Without Envoy, requests routed to a data center will be dropped when that location becomes unavailable. With Envoy, each data center / geographic location is defined as an Envoy 'site'. Envoy at each site constantly monitors the availability of the other sites. When one site goes down, requests are automatically routed to the site that is still available.

By adding Envoy, you ensure that even a catastrophic site-wide failure will not interrupt mission-critical services.

If you have a basic understanding of networking and can set up a server, you can install Equalizer yourself. We've put a great deal of thought and effort into making our products easy to install and our documentation easy to understand. The Getting Started and Basic Configuration Guide provided with each Equalizer provide the information you need to get Equalizer out of the box and onto your network. An installation video is also available on our website as well as on the Resource CD that comes with every Equalizer. This also contains the installation and Adminisration Guide, with even more help to get you started using Equalizer effectively in your configuration. And we always have top-notch tech support standing by to provide help if you need it.

Of course, Coyote Point can refer you to an authorized Coyote Point reseller who can provide consulting and installation services. Just contact our sales team.