Traffic Management Maps New Directions

摘要

The application traffic management space is getting resurfaced as vendors such as F5, Radware, and Redline green-light new products with traffic compression, DoS attack protection, server-side caching, and other features aimed at simplifying and lowering the cost of network management. F5 Networks leads the parade this week with a completely rewritten version of its Big-IP platform. Version 9 of the platform is designed to stop the proliferation of separate appliances for different jobs on the network and reduce the number of software interfaces. "By integrating several functions into one box and using the same interface, we've simplified the network and the job of the network manager at the same time," said Jason Needham, senior product manager at F5.