Nortel Passport 8006 Brochure

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• Combines the port density andconnectivity of the Passport 8600modular switch with award-winning Alteon WebSwitching technology• Provides Local and Global ServerLoad Balancing and healthchecks, to optimize existingserver infrastructure andminimize costs• Enables Firewall and VPN LoadBalancing, which can run simul-taneously with server loadbalancing, for economicalsecurity deployments withoutbottlenecks• Delivers Content IntelligentSwitching and session-levelpersistence to maximizeprofitability while minimizinginfrastructure impactSwitching in the Web data centerdemands a unique set of capabilities, dueto the time-sensitive nature of accessingWeb content. A Web Switch must be ableto quickly handle an enormous number ofsessions, while ensuring that the Webservers it is connected to are topologicallyclose to the user, healthy, and able to fulfillthe users’ request in the least possible time.It must balance the load coming into theservers, firewalls, or VPNs. The WebSwitch must protect the servers againstDenial-of-Service attacks, overloadedIntrusion Detection servers and flashcrowds. It must ensure persistence, toeliminate e-commerce pitfalls like brokenshopping carts and Web forms, whileremaining easy to deploy. And a WebSwitch must enable new traffic types,including streaming media and wireless.Alteon WebSwitching ModuleAlteon WSM BenefitsNortel NetworksIntelligent InternetProduct BriefIntroducing Nortel Networks Alteon WebSwitching Module (WSM). The WSMbrings all the capabilities of Alteon’s award-winning stackable Web Switches to amodular format that is affordable, scalable,and easy to customize for every users’unique needs. The combination of theAlteon WSM and Nortel’s Passport 8600creates a complete, high capacity, carrier-class switching system of unprecedentedscale. Service providers, hosters, contentproviders, e-businesses and enterprises cannow get state-of-the-art Web OS TrafficManagement while aggregating largenumbers of 10/100/1000 Ethernetconnections to servers, routers,firewalls, and caches.

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