Radware APSolute Application Access - Branch Out Your Applications

Be Productive, From Anywhere, At Anytime

APSolute Application Access optimizes distributed applications all the way across the WAN, so that business can happen everywhere, at the speed of opportunity.

The Challenge: Delivering applications across the WAN getting you down?

Unreliable Internet connectivity and slow response times are common problems facing branch office users. Add to this the need to ensure trusted and secure branch office access, while also protecting against increasing security vulnerabilities of web-based applications, and you’ve got yourself a daunting distributed application delivery challenge.

Numerous factors contribute to less than optimal application availability, performance and security at remote sites. Traffic overloads, bandwidth bottlenecks and link failures all result in incomplete transactions and denied user access. Spending more money on more bandwidth does not address the problems of WAN latencies, line utilization and link failover challenges.

The Solution: LinkProof and LinkProof Branch

	LinkProof Appliances Enterprise multi-homing and WAN acceleration for reliable, always-on and optimized Internet link connectivity and accelerated distributed application delivery.
	LinkProof Branch Appliances Remote office access solution consolidates multi-homing, VPN and WAN acceleration to enable reliable, accelerated and cost effective distributed application delivery from HQ to branch offices.

Radware APSolute Access delivers on the promise of distributed computing. APSolute ensures available, fast, secure and economical distributed application delivery from headquarters to branch offices, allowing enhanced productivity at every point across the enterprise.

Radware’s APSolute application access brings together the combined functionality of multi-link WAN connection management, access control, bandwidth management, site-to-site compression, integrated VPN gateway, intrusion prevention and Denial of Service protection. This cohesive solution is offered to optimize distributed applications across remote and branch offices, while dramatically reducing connectivity costs and bandwidth consumption.

The combination of LinkProof and LinkProof Branch provides remote sites with optimal end-to-end availability, performance and security for business-critical applications that reside on the data center. This robust enterprise-wide solution supports a “server-less” branch architecture, reducing TCO by requiring less network devices at the branch, which translates into additional savings.

Radware’s LinkProof/LinkProof Branch APSolute Application Access Solution

• Internet link availability - Multi-homing across leased lines and broadband links enables continuous Internet link connectivity from headquarters to remote branch offices. APSolute advanced health monitoring checks Internet links for service failures, automatically redirecting traffic to operative links for failure bypassing, full distributed application availability and non-stop user access to mission critical applications.
   
• Fastest application response times - APSolute Access solutions ensure fastest application response times by cutting bandwidth consumption and reducing link loads to accelerate connection speed. File compression reduces transmission size between 30 - 90%; bandwidth management prioritizes traffic to guarantee service levels for mission critical applications and enable maximum link utilization; TCP session and flow control resolves in propagation delays and accelerates packet delivery; HTTP caching saves additional bandwidth by not resending any objects already cached by users’ browsers.
   
• VPN security functionality for trusted branch office remote access - APSolute Access provides encrypted, protected and optimized communications between branch office and headquarters.
  
  Branch office users have authenticated access to mission critical applications including email, enterprise file systems and Intranet/Extranet Web applications for enhanced productivity with security from remote offices.
  
  Administrators have granular control over VPN performance, determining which users and applications are used across private or public Internet links. By selectively redirecting VPN communications to lower cost links and balancing loads across VPN gateways, APSolute delivers secure and optimized communication and controls costs and drive performance.
• Dramatically reduced connectivity costs - APSolute Access solutions provide complete flexibility in creating multi-homed networks at any speed from 5Mbps to 3 Gbps, mixing and matching any T1/E1/xDSL/Frame Relay/MPLs connectivity architecture to selectively replace private leased lines with less expensive Internet links, without compromising on reliability, security or speed.
   
• Optimized distributed applications and guaranteed service levels - LinkProof products fully leverage the power of APSolute OS classification and flow management capabilities, providing the industry’s first solution to control remote office traffic based on granular application intelligence for “application-smart” network performance and custom-fit tuning of network behavior. Traffic can be classified based on any combination of Layer 4-7 parameters, including source and destination IPs, application type, session IDs, cookies, payload information and content.
  
  With APSolute flow management, network administrators can prioritize and tune distributed applications to guarantee service levels for mission critical applications everywhere across the WAN.
• Enhanced real-time application security - APSolute OS integrated intrusion prevention provides enhanced security against viruses, worms, and Trojans protecting all entry points to your network and continually cleaning links to protect against application level attacks.
   
• Simple and centralized remote office connectivity management - APSolute Insite is a unified management tool with an easy to use GUI that simplifies the set-up, control and auditing of an unlimited number of branch offices, while affording comprehensive link performance information for monitoring and troubleshooting distributed application and transaction operations across the WAN.