Sun goes virtual route with N2120V content switch

摘要

Sun has entered the crowded content-switching market with a novel twist: Its Sun Secure Application Switch N2120V lets users define multiple switching and routing domains on a single box. In our Clear Choice Test of this switch, we found it relatively easy to set up multiple domains. Performance also was good, with support for up to 1.25 million concurrent connections and as many as 230,000 new connections set up each second, making the Sun box a fit for all but the very largest data centers. N2000 series switches, which Sun picked up with its Nauticus acquisition in 2004, offer many of the same features as competing application acceleration devices from Array, Citrix, Crescendo, F5 Networks, Foundry Networks and Juniper, including load balancing, content switching, TCP multiplexing, SSL acceleration and protection against denial-of-service attacks.