2007 Application Delivery Challenge
Produced by Layland Consulting and Webtorials

Welcome to the 2007 edition of the Application Delivery Challenge: Solutions for the Data Center.

You have come to the right place if you are looking for the best networking solution for servers and applications. The leading solution providers - Foundry Networks, Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks and Citrix Systems - have all come together to explain why they have the best overall solution.

This networking solution for the data center goes by many names: Application Switch, Application Delivery Controller (ADC) or Application Front End (AFE). It’s the next evolution of Server Load Balancers or Layer 4-7 switches. While we have not decided on a name, and we didn't even settle on one in the past, let’s call it an application switch since it is one less word. Regardless, it plays a critical role in the network.

Does a solution exists that can make everyone happy? Well, there may be no perfect solution but these vendors have come close. They did it by packaging a combination of features that work together in the application switch.

The key features include:

The vendors have also addressed the issue of managing the application switch, providing a scalable solution for small to large implementations; providing high performance; reducing heat, power, space requirements; and having hardened their equipment to keep them running and keep the bad guys out.

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