while increasing availability, security, scalability, and resource utilization. Key benefits
include:
• Improved infrastructure utilization: ServerIron ADX switches perform highly
customizable real-time health checks, dynamically monitoring the ability of servers to
optimize performance and transparently reacting to server farm congestion by
distributing client traffic loads to the most available servers. Intelligent content
switching maximizes server utilization and performance by eliminating the need to
replicate content and application functions on every server.
• Increased server availability: ServerIron ADX switches can be deployed in multiple
high-availability modes with hitless and stateful session synchronization and failover
to extend availability even through switch failures.
• Robust security: With built-in intelligence, ServerIron ADX switches detect and discard
viruses and worms that spread through application-level messages. The switches
load-balance legitimate application traffic while preventing and defeating attacks.
Through specialized embedded logic, the switches reliably protect against many
forms of DoS and Distributed DoS (DDoS) attacks at industry-leading data rates of up
to 32 million attack packets per second.
• Massive scalability: ServerIron ADX switches provide virtually unlimited scalability to
IP-based applications and server farms in a cost-effective manner. They allow the use
of multiple servers with load balancing and failover, eliminating forklift upgrades to
server farms and disruption to applications.
• Faster ROI: ServerIron ADX switches provide high ROI for application and server
infrastructure in a short timeframe, supporting significantly higher application traffic
and user loads on existing infrastructure by maximizing server resource utilization.
With support for server connection offload, the switches reduce connection
management overhead, freeing up resources for application processing and
improving overall server farm performance and capacity. On-demand and unlimited
virtual server farm scalability eliminates the need for forklift upgrades and
dramatically improves server infrastructure ROI.
Key Product Features
Q What are the differences between the various model configurations?
A The ServerIron ADX 1000 series switches come in fixed 1U form factor and can be
ordered in multiple configurations from a single application core in the ADX 1008-1 to up
to four application cores in ADX 1216-4. These can be scaled up through a pay-as-you-
grow expansion model by activating software upgrade licenses. Customers can activate
up to four application cores, two 10GigE ports, up to sixteen 1Gig ports, SSL hardware
acceleration and GSLB, IPv6 and Layer 3 software receiving true investment protection
from the industry’s most flexible, high-performing 1U application delivery platform.
When reconfiguration, scaling, or expansion is required for extra high throughput and
CPS/TPS, the unique chassis design of the 4U ServerIron ADX 4000 and the 10U
ServerIron ADX 10000 provides a dedicated backplane to support application, data, and
management functionality and capacity expansion through specialized modules.
Q What kinds of modules are available for the ServerIron ADX chassis models?
A The following model-interchangeable Field Replaceable Units (FRUs) are available for
ServerIron ADX 4000 and 10000 chassis:
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