- Deliver fast, secure and available applications
- Minimize infrastructure costs
- Deploy in any combination of physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures
Zeus Traffic Manager is the fastest software Application Delivery Controller on the market. It will optimize most common web/application servers, and protocols.
It is easy to deploy – on your own hardware, hypervisor or in your favorite cloud. It powers some of the most popular sites on the web, such as Whitepages.com, Gilt Groupe, Domino's Pizza and the BBC. Zeus Traffic Manager is used by 7 of the top 10 telecoms providers globally.
Maximize Speed
Ensure your application performs fast, while taking the load off your application and web servers, with a comprehensive range of acceleration and optimization techniques, including SSL, XSLT and compression offload and HTTP content caching as standard. Zeus Traffic Manager can reduce the number of application servers required by up to 70%.
Maximize Availability
Keep your application on-line through a range of load balancing methods, session persistence and health monitors. Service Level Monitoring and Bandwidth Management ensure that users get fair levels of service. Take advantage of cloud and autoscale compute resources on-demand. Cope with demand peaks while minimizing infrastructure costs.
Maximize Security
Ensure that malicious Denial of Service (DOS) attacks don't take your application down with service protection capabilities. The Application Firewall protects against the top ten risks associated with the use of web applications in an enterprise, as defined by OWASP.
Monitor Performance
Monitor the real response time of your application, and track SLAs with a set of logs, reports and graphs. Real time analytics allow you to diagnose problems fast by filtering patterns of connections as they happen.
Ultimate Control
Customize your traffic management policies with TrafficScript and Java Extensions. These provide full control over how individual requests are optimized, routed and transformed. Gain the power to solve application problems, address faults and vulnerabilities and create workflows that you may never have thought possible.
Performance
Peak performance capabilites on a range of hardware platforms are described in the Zeus Traffic Manager performance quick reference.
Licenses with lower performance capacities are available at lower cost; refer to the Licensing Guide for a description of the options available.
Deployment options
Zeus Traffic Manager supports the widest range of deployment platforms of any Application Delivery Controller, with a consistent, high-performance software architecture that supports physical, virtual and cloud-based infrastructures.
Software
Run Zeus software on the Physical or Virtual server platform of your choice:
- Recommended: 2 GB RAM; 50 GB disk space; Intel Xeon/AMD Opteron/Sun SPARC; Dual 1Gbit or 10Gbit NICs
- 32-bit and 64-bit UNIX/Linux platforms: Linux, Solaris.
Supported platforms - Software:
| Linux x86 |
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Linux 2.6 (2.6.8+, 2.6.22+ for IPv6) |
| Linux x86-64 |
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Linux 2.6 (2.6.8+, 2.6.22+ for IPv6) |
| Solaris SPARC |
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Solaris 10 |
| Solaris x86 |
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Solaris 10 |
| Solaris x86-64 |
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Solaris 10 |
| OpenSolaris x86-64 |
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OpenSolaris 2009.6 |
Zeus Traffic Manager Software runs on physical servers and within Linux or Solaris guests on a wide range of virtualization platforms.
Optional features:
- IP Transparency and multi-hosted IP addresses are not available on Solaris software.
Virtualization
Run Zeus Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance on VMware Virtual Infrastructure, VMware vSphere, XenServer and OracleVM. Run Zeus software on the virtualization platform of your choice.
Supported platforms - Virtual:
Zeus’ Virtual Appliance is fully supported on the following virtualization platforms:
| VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 |
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ESX 3.x |
| VMware vSphere 4 |
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ESX 4.x |
| XenServer |
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XenServer 5.5 |
| OracleVM |
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OracleVM 2.1 |
Zeus software may be installed on any virtual environment that presents a complete virtual hardware instance to the guest OS, or a complete and standard virtual OS instance to an application, including VMware, Xen, Oracle VM, KVM, Solaris Zones and Solaris LDOMs. Hyper-V is currently not recommended for production use due to the experimental nature of its support for Linux guests.
Cloud
Run Zeus Traffic Manager software on any supported Cloud infrastructure, including Rackspace Cloud, Joyent and Amazon EC2.