Dec, 2001 : Radware Announces Internet Routing Manager

📅 December 11, 2001 - Radware (radware.com) announced yesterday the release of Peer director, an ITM device that dynamically manages Cisco and Juniper IP Backbone traffic.

Radware's Peer director introduces traffic management capabilities inmulti-homed network environments that use Border Gateway Patrol -- the mostcommon method of connecting disparate backbone networks across the Internet.Radware's Peer director gathers and analyzes realtime statistics associatedwith Internet traffic carried on multiple links. Based on these statisticsand in conjunction with customizable user-defined policies, Peer directorredistributes and optimizes traffic loads between the links through multiplesophisticated load balancing algorithms that are proprietary to Radware.Network administrators no longer need to manually monitor the availabilityof routers and ISP links. Peer director automatically and dynamicallyachieves link optimization by redirecting users to the healthiest link,thereby avoiding traffic congestion that often plagues BGP routing schemes.
"Route traffic management is an important trend as it improves Internetperformance, and drastically cuts IT overhead and administration costs,"said Lawrence Orans, senior analyst, Gartner, Inc. "Controlling Internetrouting will enable companies that deploy BGP to provide high availabilityand link optimization in multi-homed environments by enforcing policies ontraffic redirection across various Internet links."
Border Gateway Patrol is the industry standard protocol used to exchangerouting information across the Internet, the company said. BGP maintainsrouting tables, transmits routing updates and bases routing decisions onpredefined metrics. It does not, however, take into account any performanceor delay information, which traditionally results in inefficient trafficrouting and Service Provider link utilization.
"Radware is again the first company in the market to introduce an innovativetraffic management product that will result in tremendous cost savings andimproved performance for enterprise and carrier customers," said RoyZisapel, president and CEO of Radware. "This is achieved through customizedtraffic redirection based on cost and utilization parameters, coupled withenforcing the customer policies on its bandwidth usage."
Radware also addresses link traffic management with LinkProof, its Internetlink traffic management solution. LinkProof intelligently load balances andmanages multiple ISP connections to ensure the fastest inbound and outboundcontent delivery.