Network Traffic Load Balancer
Source: RADWARE Inc. and RND Company
FireProof is a network traffic load balancer designed to intelligently distribute traffic
FireProof is a network traffic load balancer designed to intelligently distribute traffic between an array of firewalls/VPNs or routers. Firewall load balancing has become an indispensable link in the security chain, because a single firewall can represent both a bottleneck and a single point of failure. The way to overcome these issues is to add additional firewalls, according to the company. Adding firewalls, however, requires some mechanism for intelligently distributing load between the multiple units and detecting failure and saturation of these devices.
This product adds scalability, optimization of resources, fault tolerance and redundancy to multiple firewall systems by allowing up 100 physical firewalls to work collectively in a single farm. The principal enhancement added by version 1.3 is support for non-transparent firewalls. This feature allows the balancer to distribute load between transparent and non-transparent firewalls simultaneously. The flexibility of deployments is thereby significantly improved, as it can now handle traffic distribution to proxy firewalls or firewalls using Network Address Translation (NAT).
RADWARE Inc., 575 Corporate Drive, Suite 205, Mahwah, NJ 07430 Phone: 201-512-9771 or 1-888-2345-RND Fax: 201-512-9774