NetContinuum blends app acceleration with security

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENISE DUBIE ON NETWORK OPTIMIZATION
07/26/05
Today's focus: NetContinuum blends app acceleration with
security

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Today's focus: NetContinuum blends app acceleration with
security

By Denise Dubie

As the application acceleration market continues to converge, so
do features and products from vendors in the market. The latest
news comes from NetContinuum, which last week announced an
appliance that combines application acceleration with security.

The NC-2000 Application Security Gateway marries the
capabilities of NetContinuum's application firewall technology
with load balancing, traffic switching, SSL encryption and
application acceleration.

Company representatives say they simply followed customers' lead
when putting the multiple capabilities in one box. "Customers
are buying into the idea of convergence," says NetContinuum CEO
Gene Banman. "Customers want to assure availability,
manageability and security - and that is approximately the order
of things we do to the traffic with our box."

In fact, a recent company survey found that 75% of its customers
are already using the optional traffic management features of
the company's flagship Web application security gateway, the
NC-1000. With the NC-2000, NetContinuum made it official.
According to Banman, F5 Networks, with its June acquisition of
MagniFire, is one competitor also trying to put traffic
management and security features on one appliance.

"With this type of approach, customers can get a single view of
the total health of their application," Banman says. "We suspect
F5 will have a product out similar to this following the
acquisition."

The NC-2000 sits between a router and an application server, or
between a corporate firewall and the application server, in
customer data centers. It consolidates network, application and
XML firewall, caching, compression, load balancing, traffic
switching, SSL acceleration and logging into one device, the
company says. The appliance is based on AMD Opteron processors.

The NC-2000 can manage and secure 7,300 Web application
transactions per second. It can also complete 9,000 SSL
1,024-bit handshakes per second, more than 52,000 HTTP
transactions, and more than 62,000 TCP terminations per second,
the company says.

The NC-2000 ships with the new NetContinuum Secure Application
Management Console, which is software independent of the
appliance that can run on a laptop or workstation.

The $55,000 NC-2000 is in beta tests now and is expected to be
generally available in August.

CORRECTION: In last week's edition of the Network Optimization
newsletter, entitled "Competition for app acceleration dollars
heats up," I mistakenly transposed two companies involved in an
acquisition. It was Akamai that acquired Speedera earlier this
year. My apologies for the error.

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Senior Editor Denise Dubie covers network and systems management
for Network World. Reach her at <mailto:ddubie@nww.com>.
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