Designed to accelerate content and ease Internet gridlock, the NetScaler 3000 series can deliver a website proactively and inform users of current Internet response times.

by Wayne Kawamoto [May 7, 2001]

NetScaler announced its NetScaler 3000 Series, an Internet infrastructure system that combines content acceleration with traffic management features.

Based on the company's Internet Connection Management (ICM) technology, NetScaler 3000 Series products are designed to ease Internet gridlock and improve an end-user's quality of experience. In addition, NetScaler 3000 is designed to help service providers reduce the cost of operating and managing an e-business infrastructure.

NetScaler says that its 3000 family of products deliver the following important set of features: Website surge protection, consolidated Web logging, request-driven load balancing, content switching, and cache redirection. Additionally, the company's SureConnect feature is designed to provide a new approach for predicting and keeping end-users informed of Internet response times, thereby maximizing the opportunity to complete transactions.

Designed for CIOs, CTOs and IT managers, the NetScaler 3000 Series provides an infrastructure to scale server processing power, conserve energy and optimize site efficiency while ensuring business uptime and site availability.

It can support more than one million concurrent client and server connections and deliver more than 700 Mbps sustained network throughput.

By adapting to unexpected traffic surges or "flash crowds," NetScaler products may also eliminate server access errors, help avoid server overload conditions, insulate servers from distributed denial of service (DoS) attacks, and provide protection from SYN flood attacks.

To proactively deal with Internet delays, NetScaler 3000 products offer the SureConnect feature that gives users who are unable to connect to a site an anticipated server response time.

"Our goal is to advance Internet quality of experience. NetScaler 3000 Series products can considerably improve the performance and availability of Web infrastructures by maximizing the efficiency of existing servers and caches," says B.V. Jagadeesh, NetScaler's president and CEO."Our ICM technology enables us to deliver a comprehensive set of accelerated content delivery and intelligent traffic management features all in one."

"As companies become more dependent on Web-based applications to improve customer relationships, reliable and fast Web infrastructure becomes more important to a company's image—or its brand—than marketing," says Peter Firstbrook, senior research analyst at META Group. "Products that alleviate server and bandwidth constraints and allow more cost-effective growth are in increasing demand from Infrastructure planners as they attempt to balance the conflicting constraints of increasing Web application dependence and reduced budgets."

Availability and pricing
The NetScaler 3000 Series includes the NetScaler 3100 1U/100Mbit Ethernet and NetScaler 3200 2U/Gigabit Ethernet standalone systems, both with ICM technology.

NetScaler pricing starts at US$ 20,000 and systems are available today.

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