| Ethernet Connectivity |
5 x 10/100 |
12 x GigE |
12 x GigE |
22 x GigE (2 x SFP Fiber) |
| Throughput |
60 Mbps |
850 Mbps |
1.0 Gbps |
1.3 Gbps |
| Max Clusters |
64 |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Servers per Cluster |
16 |
32 |
128 |
512 |
| Max Servers Supported |
1024 |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Layer 4 Load Balancing |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Layer 7 Load Balancing |
N/A |
 |
 |
 |
| Layer 7 Transactions Per Second |
n/a |
50,000 TPS |
75,000 TPS |
110,000 TPS |
| SSL Offload Acceleration (HTTPS) |
n/a |
 Software 500 TPS |
 Xcel 11 Hardware 8,500 TPS |
 Xcel 11 Hardware 14,000 TPS |
| SSL Offload Throughput |
n/a |
400 Mbps |
700 Mbps |
825 Gbps |
| HTTP Web Compression |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
 Express Hardware 1 Gbps Throughput |
| Envoy (GLSB) Global Server Load Balancing |
n/a |
Optional |
Optional |
 Included |
Equalizer VLB Basic (VMware Integration) |
n/a |
 |
 |
 |
Equalizer VLB Advanced (VMware Integration) |
n/a |
 |
 |
 Included |
| Direct Server Return (DSR) |
n/a |
 |
 |
 |
| VLAN |
n/a |
 |
 |
 |
| Smart Rules |
n/a |
 |
 |
 |
Content Switching (Match Rules) |
n/a |
 |
 |
 |
| Responders |
n/a |
 |
 |
 |
| URL Rewrites and Redirects |
n/a |
 |
 |
 |