NetScaler 9000 Series

Secure Application Networking Systems

The industry's leading solution for the secure, optimized delivery of applications over the Internet and private networks. Evolving your network to support your company's business goals means more than just extending applications to customers, partners and employees. It means designing an application infrastructure that can easily adapt to the uncertainties that lie beyond your corporate boundaries. If you think your existing infrastructure can meet this challenge, then think again. To ensure continuous availability of your applications and content, your network must accommodate the increased vulnerability that comes with exposing these applications to a global audience. It must ensure the end-to-end encryption of business-critical content without compromising the end-user experience. It must automatically increase the resiliency of your applications' performance to unexpected network delays or fluctuations in demand. If you still think your infrastructure can do all that, chances are you're coping with a network too complex to manage and too costly to scale. Either way, you need a network that's architected for application networking.

KEY BENEFITS

	Production Proven Deployed in production networks worldwide by leading enterprises, e-commerce vendors, and content providers
	End-to-End Application Security Eases the rollout of new applications by providing enough SSL capacity to secure all of your application content from end-to-end without compromise
	Optimized Application Performance Speeds end-user response times by integrating high throughput compression, static and dynamic caching, and advanced TCP optimizations
	Continuous Application Availability Ensures undisrupted service during DDoS attacks, intrusion attempts, traffic surges and server failures
	Reduced Cost of Operations Decreases bandwidth consumption, and increases capacity of existing servers, caches, firewalls and other IT investments

The NetScaler 9000 Series of secure application networking systems solves these challenges by combining application-level security, optimization and switching into a central point of application control. Explicitly designed to direct, protect and control application requests in the most efficient way possible, this unique product line enables enterprises, e-commerce vendors and content providers to ensure the secure, optimized delivery of their business critical applications while significantly reducing the total cost of their network operations.

Unique Application Intelligent Architecture

The NetScaler 9000 Series reduces the cost and complexity associated with new application rollout by combining the essential elements of secure application networking—security, optimization and switching—into a single, integrated solution.

Powered by NetScaler's patented Request Switching™ technology, the NetScaler 9000 Series dramatically improves the throughput and scalability of Internet application infrastructure by offloading transport processing from servers and caches, and regulating the flow of application requests in the most efficient way possible.

Comprehensive Application Protection

Application Level DDoS Attack Protection

The NetScaler 9000 Series includes built-in defenses against a host of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks including SYN flood, Tear Drop, and ICMP attacks along with application-level attacks that masquerade as legitimate. Its ability to continue service delivery to valid users at the maximum capacity of the infrastructure sets the 9000 Series apart from all products in it class.

Content Intelligent Intrusion Filtering

Content Intelligent Intrusion Filtering picks up where the DDoS defenses leave off, preventing intrusion attempts and defeating worms by blocking traffic based on the source IP address, the contents of the requested URL, and other pre-packaged or flexible user-definable rules.

Insulation from Traffic Surges

To ensure continuous application availability during periods of high demand, the NetScaler 9000 protects system resources by automatically adapting to fluctuations in traffic. When servers near capacity, the NetScaler 9000 dynamically regulates the rate at which connections are established and requests transmitted, ensuring servers perform at optimal efficiency, and that every request receives the fastest possible response.

Accelerated Application Performance

On-the-Fly Compression of Application Data

The NetScaler 9000 Series automatically compresses both secure and non-secure application content before transmitting. By enabling NetScaler's high throughput compression capabilities, the NetScaler 9000 Series can eliminate bandwidth bottlenecks —speeding requests for secure content by as much as 50%.

Caching of Static and Dynamic Application Content

NetScaler's Application Caching option enables the integration of static and dynamic content caching within the NetScaler 9000 Series product line. By serving data from the on-board cache, NetScaler eliminates the need to direct application requests to the server, resulting in significantly faster page downloads and increased server efficiency.

Secure Delivery of Critical Application Content

Secure Remote Access to Applications

The NetScaler 9000 Series provides your employees, partners, and customers with anytime, anywhere access to applications and content. The system requires no additional client or server software, allowing remote users to gain access from any browser. Whether at home, on the road, via wireless LAN, or from behind the firewall of another company, your remote users will have secure access to the business critical applications and content they need, when they need it.

End-to-End Encryption of Application Content

To ensure the secure delivery of application requests, the NetScaler 9000 Series transparently offloads the CPU-intensive SSL encryption/decryption from local web servers—eliminating the processing bottleneck traditionally associated with secure applications

Increased Efficiency of Existing Network Assets

Reduced Infrastructure Complexity & Cost

The NetScaler 9000 Series is simple to install and flexible to manage. Network administrators can perform all configuration, monitoring and logging functions via command line interface (CLI) or web-based GUI. In addition, the Netscaler 9000 Series can be managed via third party software using SNMP or via XML/SOAP API for custom management solutions.

Scalable Application Infrastructure

As the industry's most scalable application networking platform, the NetScaler 9000 Series automatically adapts to unexpected increases in user demand—accommodating even the most complex and demanding of application environments. Its high performance processing techniques optimize the use of standard Internet protocols to service millions of users using significantly fewer servers. And by offloading the TCP processing onto the NetScaler system, server side resources are carefully optimized to achieve high throughput, low latency and high availability.

Fine-Grained Traffic Control

The NetScaler 9000 Series provides the Industry's most comprehensive layer 4-7 traffic management. When deployed in front of firewalls, servers, caches or across datacenters this Secure Application Networking System allows network administrators to flexibly control the flow and direction of every content request—intelligently distributing traffic load across all systems, bypassing unhealthy or overloaded systems and automatically registering new systems as they come online.

Flexible Deployment Options

Enabling the Secure, Optimized Delivery of Applications

Powered by NetScaler's patented Request Switching technology, the Secure Application Gateway combines application security, protection and optimization into a single, easy-to-use solution. The systems serves as a complement to existing network architectures—encrypting application data, continuously serving users and reducing the cost of operations, all while diminishing the user experience.

Application Intelligent Traffic Control

NetScaler's Secure Application Switch augments the functionality of its Secure Application Gateway with fine-grain traffic management—uniquely combining application-level security, optimization, and switching into a unified platform. The result is a powerful solution that ensures the secure, optimized delivery of applications while dramatically lowering the cost of operations.

Secure Remote Application Access

NetScaler's Secure Application Gateway and Secure Application Switch can dramatically reduce the cost of operations associated with secure remote application access and delivery. When deployed as a platform for secure remote access, the NetScaler 9000 Series requires no incremental client hardware or software and no changes to the LAN—forming a perfect complement to existing VPNs and custom extranet deployments.

Packaging

To accommodate the widest range of network architectures, the NetScaler 9000 Series provides a variety of flexible deployment options:

The 9200/9600 Secure Application Gateway provides a powerful complement to existing network infrastructures—ensuring the secure, optimized delivery of business-critical applications.

The 9400/9800 Secure Application Switch combines application security and optimization with layer 4-7 switching to form a single, seamlessly integrated solution.