Overview

The ServerIron 4G series application switches meet the demand for secure and optimized delivery of growing Web and triple-play services in the small- and mid-sized enterprise data centers.  This entry-level switch series features the industry's most feature-rich and affordable switches with support for a broad range of IP-based applications. The ServerIron 4G series offers an integrated purpose-built Web Firewall to protect enterprises' Web-enabled applications from growing threats that target service disruption and compromise of sensitive information. This switch series packs powerful data-center class resiliency features and hardware-based security and acceleration to deliver rich application benefits previously only accessible to and affordable by large enterprise and service provider organizations.

A choice of two models in the series – ServerIron 4G and ServerIron 4G-SSL –leverage the same purpose-built architecture of high-end ServerIron switches, and deliver it in the most affordable entry price range for smaller organizations and data centers that support approximately 1,000 users or greater. The ServerIron 4G-SSL features integrated hardware Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) acceleration to increase the performance of secure Web transactions in enterprise and e-commerce environments by offloading SSL processing from servers and centralizing SSL certificate management. This switch delivers unparalleled SSL performance of up to 500 Mbps SSL throughput in its class for a small price premium. The ServerIron 4G switch is ideally suited to deliver high-performance, availability and security to non-Web IP applications, and where entry price is a key consideration.

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