| Clustered, web-based GUI |
Yes |
Yes |
| Standards-based SOAP Control API |
Yes |
Yes |
| CLI and command line tools |
Yes |
Yes |
| Active/active and active/passive |
Yes |
Yes |
| Cluster size |
2 active units |
64 active units |
| Back-end nodes and applications |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Supported protocols |
All TCP and UDP protocols; IPv4 and IPv6;HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP, FTP, SMTP, SIP, RTSP, DNS, custom, etc. |
| Layer-7 load balancing |
Yes |
Yes |
| Session persistence |
Yes |
Yes |
| Application health monitoring |
Yes |
Yes |
| Performance monitoring |
Yes |
Yes |
| Application acceleration |
Yes |
Yes |
| Content caching |
Option |
Yes |
| SSL acceleration |
Yes |
Yes |
| Service protection |
Yes |
Yes |
| Traffic management rules: |
RuleBuilderT rules |
RuleBuilderT & TrafficScriptT rules; JavaT Extensions |
| Entire request and response control |
No |
Yes |
| Rate shaping |
No |
Yes |
| XML processing |
No |
Yes |
| Real-time analytics |
No |
Option |
| Service level monitoring |
No |
Option |
| Bandwidth management |
No |
Option |
| Application auto-scaling |
No |
Option |
| Application Firewall Module |
No |
Option |
| Zeus Multi-Site Manager (MSM) |
No |
Option |
| Global Load Balancing (option to MSM) |
No |
Option |
| Global Load Balancing rules |
RuleBuilderT & TrafficScriptT rules; JavaT Extensions |
| Software |
Linux x86, Solaris x86, Solaris SPARC |
| Virtual Appliance |
VMware, XenServer, OracleVM |
| Cloud |
Any supported Cloud infrastructure platform including Amazon EC2 |