Radware's CertainT 100 - 1600 promises to process 1600 Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) transactions per second, providing unmatched speed and security.

by Wayne Kawamoto [May 31, 2002]

Radware, a provider of Intelligent Application Switching (IAS), announced the latest version of its SSL Accelerator, the CertainT 100 - 1600. With this device, Radware says that it's helping its customers to process secure transactions without limitation and its new model provides unmatched performance that processes twice as many transactions as competing products and satisfies the needs of high throughput environments that need to handle heavy amounts of secure transactions.

The SSL encryption/decryption capabilities of the CertainT 100, coupled with the strengths of Radware's Application Switching solutions, are designed to ensure fast, efficient, continuous, and secure completion of e-business transactions without degradation in network performance. For this, the CertainT 100 promises to provide high-speed on-line SSL transactions, while simultaneously helping web servers to operate at their peak efficiencies. The company says that this may be accomplished by relieving network web servers of the CPU-intensive SSL encryption and decryption calculations that are associated with e-commerce applications.

Radware's new CertainT 100 platform may help customers scale their SSL processing power in various stages, ranging from 400 TPS to 1600 TPS. The device may also allow customers to reach maximum scalability using fewer devices, which would save on rack space and help companies to more easily manage their systems.

Radware says that its CertainT 100 provides unlimited scalability, whereby users can scale SSL transactions to 20,000 per second, making it the industry's top performing SSL accelerator. Also, the CertainT 100 is designed to be managed through basic web-based management applications that promise easy remote manageability to configure and monitor the device.

The company claims that its CertainT 100 - 1600 offers the following benefits to ISPs:

• A transparent and easy means to scale up and support SSL server farms that contain up to 100 devices. Radware says that its device supports the largest ISPs.
  
  
• Central certificate management and monitoring of client revocation lists (CRL's), which may be important to ISPs that deal with large amounts of certificates.
  
  
• The ability to retain a client's original IP address for persistency.
  
  
• The ability to retain a lower level of backend encryption across a LAN without experiencing any degradation in performance.

"Our customers are excited over this new SSL platform, as it offers them the power to handle high levels of SSL transactions," said Assaf Ronen, VP Research & Development, Radware. "CertainT 100 - 1600 meets the growing demand for secure connections not only for e-commerce companies, but also for governmental and health institutions."

Availability and pricing
Radware is currently completing beta testing and estimates release in 6-8 weeks. The company has not announced formal pricing, but the device's predecessor SSL accelerator, which is rated for 800 TPS, lists for $16,000.

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