Brocade Communications Systems Brocade Serveiron 1000 User Manual
FAQ
BROCADE SERVERIRON
ADX 1000, 4000, & 10000 SERIES
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Overview
Brocade
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ServerIron
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intelligent application delivery and traffic management solutions have
led the industry for over a decade, helping to mitigate costs and prevent losses by optimizing
business-critical enterprise and service provider applications with high availability, security,
multisite redundancy, acceleration, and scalability—in more than 3000 of the world’s most
demanding organizations.
business-critical enterprise and service provider applications with high availability, security,
multisite redundancy, acceleration, and scalability—in more than 3000 of the world’s most
demanding organizations.
The latest generation of ServerIron Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) was designed to
meet growing demand for application connectivity, virtualization, and operating efficiency.
These new solutions include:
• ServerIron ADX 1000 Series Switches
• ServerIron ADX 4000 Series Switches
• ServerIron ADX 10000 Series Switches
General Questions and Answers
Q What are the Brocade ServerIron ADX 1000, 4000, and 10000 products?
Q A flagship platform for application-enabled networking, the ServerIron ADX 1000, 4000,
and 10000 represent a new class of data center-hardened Layer 4-7 Application Delivery
Controller for application performance monitoring, acceleration, and optimization in both
physical and virtual server environments. These products improve the user application
Controller for application performance monitoring, acceleration, and optimization in both
physical and virtual server environments. These products improve the user application
experience and offload servers to ensure higher availability and security at extreme data
rates, while lowering Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). They provide breakthrough
performance, a highly robust services platform, built-in extensibility, and seamless
interoperability across fabrics and networking protocols, stanchly supporting the most
rates, while lowering Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). They provide breakthrough
performance, a highly robust services platform, built-in extensibility, and seamless
interoperability across fabrics and networking protocols, stanchly supporting the most
mission-critical business applications.
The ServerIron ADX brings capacity on demand with both modular and fixed-
configuration platforms and enables growth in performance, interface density and
configuration platforms and enables growth in performance, interface density and
feature flexibility with growth in the business. With over 70 Gbps of Layer 4 and Layer 7
throughput, ADX leads the way in overall performance and price-performance, defending
application servers against up to 120 million Denial of Service attacks per second and
combating transaction revenue losses and security breaches with SSL performance
throughput, ADX leads the way in overall performance and price-performance, defending
application servers against up to 120 million Denial of Service attacks per second and
combating transaction revenue losses and security breaches with SSL performance
approaching 230,000 transactions per second. The ServerIron ADX ensures the greatest
application fluency and optimization with validated designs, completely customizable
application handling, backed up with an online community to engender collaborative
application delivery solutions.
application fluency and optimization with validated designs, completely customizable
application handling, backed up with an online community to engender collaborative
application delivery solutions.