Radware optimizes and controls end-to-end resource utilization to accelerate networked applications, guarantee quality of service, cut IT costs and afford economical service scaling for multi-Gigabit application performance and immediate ROI. Coupled with SynApps Application Aware services of Advanced Health Monitoring, Traffic Redirection and Load Balancing, Bandwidth Management, Intrusion Prevention and Denial of Service Protection, Radware addresses all application needs across network layers 4-7 for reliable and effective enterprise operations.
Solutions Provided by Radware Products

• Faster application response times, higher availability and airtight security with Application Front End solutions.
• Integrated intrusion prevention and denial of service protection with Application Security solutions.
• Optimized distributed applications all the way across the WAN with Application Access solutions.
• Optimized operations across all combined security tools, overcoming the security/performance tradeoff for fault tolerant, customizable and highly scalable defense with Security Management solutions.

Important Information for VARs

Complementary Products

• Citrix
• LinkProof Family/Citrix Connectivity: Radware's LinkProof Family enables fault tolerant, cost effective connectivity form headquarters to the branch offices for continuous and reliable access to Citrix applications from any location.
• AppDirector/Citrix Server Farm Continuity: Radware AppDirector delivers layer 4-7 switching across the Metaframe servers for the full availability, performance and complete security of Citrix XP Presentation, Secure Access Manager and Conferencing Server Farms.
• AppXcel/Citrix Transaction Acceleration: Radware AppXcel provides web compression and HTTP connection multiplexing may be activated to boost transaction speeds up to 500% for the fastest user-user response times.

• Clearswift, Blue Coat and other IDS, security appliances perform better when a Radware appliance manages the network traffic.
• SurfControl: Web Filter VS is the high-velocity filtering software for managing corporate Internet access at the enterprises level. The combined solution of the Radware Cache Server Director (CSD) with SurfControl Web Filter VS (SCWFVS) allows customers to scale their web filtering solutions by setting up a cluster of SCWFVS servers that can handle traffic without compromising the high availability and redundancy of the System. SurfControl E-mail Filter manages employee's use of corporate e-mail and implements and enforces a company-specific, e-mail Acceptable Usage Policy (AUP).
• Fortinet and other firewall appliances are enhanced by Radware’s switching and traffic management capabilities.

Vertical Markets

• Service Providers, e-commerce
• General Enterprise
• Education<
• Government
• Healthcare
• Manufacturing
• And other markets where application switching as well as performance, availability and security is critical

Product Fit

Radware solutions span simple infrastructure (switching) needs to intrusion protection and application performance and other mission critical requirements.

Deal Size

Deals range from single appliance solutions to multi-appliance mass deployments.

Deal Registration

Radware’s Partner program is enhanced by an Opportunity Registration program that enhances and protects the partner’s investment in the sales opportunity.

Eval/Demo Program

Radware offers Partners a Not-for-Resale Program (NFR) for all of their solutions. This program is designed to help partners demonstrate and be successful with the Radware Solution.

Corporate Overview

Radware was founded in 1997 and has been a public company since September 1999 (NASDAQ: RDWR) Co-Headquarters are located in Mahwah, New Jersey and Tel Aviv, Israel.

Radware Intelligent Application Switching (IAS) enables the full availability, maximum performance and complete security of all mission critical applications driving your business. Radware solutions are deployed at server farms and across security and connectivity layers of the network in enterprise and carrier environments. Eliminating failures, bottlenecks and security breaches, Radware solutions guarantee end-to-end application continuity.

Application Front End Solution

• AppDirector

• AppXcel

• Web Server Director

• CertainT 100

 

Application Access Solution

• LinkProof

• LinkProof Branch

 

Application Security Solution

• DefensePro

• SecureFlow

 

Managed Services Solution

• Content Inspection Director

 

AppDirector

Intelligent Application Delivery
Radware AppDirector

Radware AppDirector is an intelligent application delivery controller for the data center that provides scalability and application-level security for IT infrastructure optimization, fault tolerance and redundancy.

AppDirector combines the power of Radware’s Multi-Gigabit Application Switching hardware with APSolute OS Application-Smart Networking to ensure local and global server availability, accelerated application performance and safeguard applications with integrated intrusion prevention and denial of service protection for fast, reliable, secure application delivery.

AppDirector uses advanced Layer 4-7 policies and granular application intelligence for end-to-end application-smart networking, aligning server infrastructure operations with application front end requirements to eliminate traffic surges, server bottlenecks, connectivity disconnects and downtime for assured application access, full application continuity and redundancy. AppDirector enables fine tuning of network behavior at all critical points, end-to-end, based on granular application-specific classification of packets to optimize traffic flows for a wide range of enterprise applications such as SAP, Oracle, BEA, Citrix and other web-based applications, including support for VoIP, streaming media and secure LDAP applications.

With AppDirector’s fully integrated intrusion prevention and Denial of Service protection data center applications and server resources are insulated against application level attacks. The ability to control multi-step SSL processing provides enhanced security of HTTP, FTP, SMTP and SIP over SSL.

AppDirector lets you get the most out of your IT investments by maximizing the utilization of server infrastructure resources and enabling seamless consolidation and high scalability. Make your network adaptive and more responsive to your dynamic application and business needs with AppDirector’s fully integrated traffic classification and flow management, health monitoring and failure bypassing, traffic redirection, bandwidth management, intrusion prevention and DoS protection.

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AppXcel

Application Accelerator
Radware AppXcel

AppXcel provides end-to-end application acceleration for web-based applications, applications that use SSL and all types of clients such as desktops, PDAs and smart-phones, enabling complete transaction reliability, accelerated transaction response time and cost effective scalability.

AppXcel is a high yield application accelerator, driving application performance using a comprehensive set of AoIP acceleration technologies including compression, caching, connection pooling, TCP optimization, SSL offloading and wireless acceleration for fastest application and transaction response times and the best end user experience across the LAN, WAN and the Internet. AppXcel allows for economical and transparent scaling of server resources and delivers immediate ROI by optimizing server resources and boosting web-based application speeds by up to 500%.

AppXcel dramatically reduces transaction response times by compressing web content, optimizing images, HTTP connection multiplexing and controlling bandwidth utilization.

By offloading SSL and persistent functions (processor and server intensive operations) from servers, AppXcel frees the CPU to handle additional requests, thus eliminating the need to buy additional hardware in order to support application processing requirements. AppXcel clustering enables further transaction scalability delivering up to 35,000 TPS, for unlimited transaction growth.

AppXcel uses a high throughput, dedicated and specialized acceleration platform that enables fastest SSL transactions per second and supports concurrent connections managing certificates. Featuring client and server side SSL sniffing, AppXcel provides complete transaction visibility and security of encrypted traffic, preventing SSL virus tunneling while guaranteeing end-to-end application-smart performance tuning for web-enabled, SSL-based applications on all types of clients including desktops, PDAs and smart-phones.

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Web Server Director

Award-Winning Application Performance Radware Web Server Director

Radware Web Server Director (WSD) ensures the full availability, optimized operation and complete security of server farms, guaranteeing the reliability and highest performance of mission critical applications across your network.

WSD eliminates bottlenecks, failures and downtime from enterprise servers while continuously protecting resources from security violations for fault tolerant operation of all IP applications including web services, online databases and e-mail. By managing all network traffic at Gigabit speeds, WSD attains the maximum utilization of servers across local and global sites for full service redundancy, economical operation and seamless scaling of enterprise applications.

Combining the power of Radware's Multi-Gigabit Layer 4-7 Application Switching hardware platform with Radware's SynApps Application Aware service architecture including health monitoring, load balancing, bandwidth management, intrusion prevention and DoS protection, WSD guarantees your IT infrastructure is dependable, effective and scalable.

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CertainT 100

Award-Winning Application Accelerator
Radware CertainT 100

CertainT 100 accelerates application performance through web compression, HTTP multiplexing and SSL offloading from servers for the fastest application response times, cost effective SSL handling and immediate ROI.

CertainT 100 optimizes server resources by compressing web content and affording HTTP connection multiplexing, dramatically cutting total transaction response times. CertainT 100 processes SSL transactions and manages certificates using a high throughput dedicated and specialized acceleration platform. By freeing transaction cycles from server CPU, CertainT 100 ensures fault tolerant and reliable transaction processing while delivering immediate acceleration of applications and server ROI. Featuring SSL sniffing, CertainT 100 affords complete transaction visibility and security, preventing SSL virus tunneling. CertainT 100 clustering enables seamless transaction volume growth up to 35,000 TPS, for unlimited transaction scaling.

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LinkProof

Application Access, Everywhere
Radware LinkProof

LinkProof is a complete application access solution, allowing remote users to be productive using distributed applications from anywhere across the WAN.

Consolidating multi-homing connection management, WAN acceleration, and application security, LinkProof delivers the combined functionality to ensure reliable access and fast response times for all mission-critical applications residing in the data center.

LinkProof optimizes and intelligently routes traffic across Internet links, moderating bandwidth loads to ensure connection fault tolerance and scalability. Utilizing advanced compression, TCP session handling and caching, LinkProof accelerates application responsiveness, for the best end user experience. Securing all enterprise entry points and cleansing all link traffic, LinkProof delivers Denial of Service protection and intrusion prevention to insulate distributed applications, resources and users against attack.

When deployed together with LinkProof Branch, LinkProof provides optimal site-to-site availability, performance and security for remote offices, supporting a ‘server-less’, branch architecture from headquarters across remote offices, for enterprise wide connectivity savings.

LinkProof combines the power of Multi-Gigabit Application Switching hardware with APSolute OS Application Smart-Networking, including traffic classification and flow management, health monitoring, traffic redirection, bandwidth management, intrusion prevention and DoS protection, keeping your distributed applications and users fully connected, for full productivity, everywhere.

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LinkProof Branch

Remote Office Connection
Radware LinkProof Branch

LinkProof Branch is a remote application access solution for branch offices, ensuring optimized application delivery all the way across the WAN. LinkProof Branch supports a ‘server-less’ branch architecture, providing the availability, performance and security needed to work with distributed applications at remote sites, while reducing TCO for enhanced productivity and dramatically reduced overhead.

LinkProof-Branch couples branch office Internet connection management, WAN acceleration and integrated VPN capabilities so that remote users can work with speedy and secure distributed applications including CRM, ERP, email, Oracle and any other web-enabled application.

By enabling optimized communications using any combination of public and private connections, including broadband, T1/E1 and frame relay, LinkProof Branch dramatically cuts connectivity costs.

LinkProof Branch concurrent line usage, optimized content routing, content compression and session management maximize bandwidth utilization, while accelerating the performance of distributed applications between headquarters and remote sites, enabling economical scalable bandwidth upgrades based on evolving capacity requirements. LinkProof Integrated VPN gateway provides secure, clientless remote channel communications, simplifying remote-security administration.

Enabling continuous, secure and price controlled branch office communications, LinkProof Branch delivers applications all the way across the WAN.

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DefensePro

Intrusion Prevention & DoS Protection up to 6Gbps
Radware DefensePro

As organizations increasingly rely on the Internet for transacting business, they face new security challenges in the form of application-level attacks. It is not unusual for intrusions, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, self-propagating worms, backdoors, and encrypted attacks to make headlines as they disrupt businesses and bring networks and applications to a grinding halt.

Responding to this challenge, from the core to the perimeter, Radware’s DefensePro provides your enterprise with comprehensive inline intrusion prevention, anomaly detection and denial of service (DoS) protection from a wide variety of known attacks and unknown, zero-day attacks. Protecting against worms, viruses, spyware, pre-attack probes and other threats, this easy-to-use, scalable solution proactively prevents both network- and application-level attacks, while ensuring high performance for legitimate application traffic, even when under attack.

DefensePro’s customized, ASIC-based hardware architecture ensures unparalleled security, availability and performance. Software-based throughput upgrades maximize investment protection, allowing you to scale your solution easily and affordably.

Radware’s DefensePro integrates multiple layers of security, including signature-based protection, protocol anomaly protection, encrypted SSL attack protection, access control and bandwidth management. Moreover, it is the industry’s first solution to fully integrate adaptive, behavior-based protection capabilities to provide unparalleled security.

The solution employs adaptive behavioral analysis to immediately identify and mitigate a wide range of threats—including zero-day attacks—without requiring human intervention.

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SecureFlow

Unified Security Management
Radware SecureFlow

SecureFlow enables transparent, selective integration of content inspection, anti-virus, VPN, IDS and firewall best-of-breed security tools into a unified switched architecture to eliminate the security/performance tradeoff and improve ROI.

SecureFlow ensures high security tool availability, eliminates security bottlenecks and boosts security processing speeds while enabling cost effective security scaling letting you extract more value from your combined defense architecture.

Affording centralized security resource management, SecureFlow enables the seamless addition of new security tools, for complete security vendor freedom, with no performance or integration overhead making it easy to change/add new tools to meet emerging security needs.

SecureFlow’s powerful policy-based flow control coordinates security operations across multiple devices letting you custom fit security operations while greatly simplifying management.

SecureFlow combines the power of Multi-Gigabit Application Switching hardware with APSolute OS Application-Smart Networking including traffic classification and flow management, health monitoring and failure bypassing, traffic redirection, bandwidth management, intrusion prevention and DoS protection, unifying security operations across any combined security architecture for unified high performing defense.

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Content Inspection Director

Complete Content Security
Radware Content Inspection Director

Content Inspection Director (CID) is a managed service delivery platform for carriers enabling centralized and optimized IP value added service deployment. With CID, carriers can extend high-performance security and media services to customers worldwide, customizing delivery, guaranteeing SLA’s and increasing revenues.

Radware’s CID provides Carriers with a unified, high-availability, maximum performance switch-based architecture to centrally manage content inspection, content filtering and media delivery services for customers.

CID granular traffic classification and flow management enable the simple customization of value added services, allowing carriers to configure, tailor and deploy service packages according to customer requirements. Combining load balancing, bandwidth management and advanced traffic management CID accelerates IP application delivery, guaranteeing service levels for the best end user experience.

Optimizing resource utilization across all IP application resources, CID enables high-scalability, for seamless growth in new users and applications, thus reducing server build-out operating costs by up to 40%.

In a business where assurance is everything, Radware’s CID allows carriers to deliver value added services with complete confidence.

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Radware Partner Program

Alternative Technology supports the Radware Channel Partner Program since it is designed to provide Value Added Resellers (VARs) with access to a wide range of Radware resources, rewards and support.

Becoming an authorized reseller for Radware provides an opportunity to sell industry proven Application Switching products that offer value-added solutions to their clients. Benefits

When you partner with Radware, you will have the confidence of knowing that you are offering the best products and resources for your customers' layer 4-7 application needs. Radware will be there to assist you by offering the following:

• Password protected access to Channel Partner areas on Radware's web site for: sales tools, marketing tools, technical support, collateral requests and more
• Free collateral distribution
• Sales and technical training
• Lead sharing programs
• Participation in sales incentive programs
• MDF (Marketing Development Funds)
• Purchase of demo equipment under the Channel Partner Demo Program
• Channel Partner Kit
• Dedicated channel team for sales and marketing support

For more information about the Radware Partner Program, please visit http://www.radware.com/content/partners/channelpartners/default.asp or contact your Arrow ECS sales representative today.