Sun goes virtual route with N2120V content switch

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Today's focus:

Sun goes virtual route with N2120V content switch

By David Newman

Sun has entered the crowded content-switching market with a
novel twist: Its Sun Secure Application Switch N2120V lets users
define multiple switching and routing domains on a single box.

In our Clear Choice Test of this switch, we found it relatively
easy to set up multiple domains. Performance also was good, with
support for up to 1.25 million concurrent connections and as
many as 230,000 new connections set up each second, making the
Sun box a fit for all but the very largest data centers.

N2000 series switches, which Sun picked up with its Nauticus
acquisition in 2004, offer many of the same features as
competing application acceleration devices from Array, Citrix,
Crescendo, F5 Networks, Foundry Networks and Juniper, including
load balancing, content switching, TCP multiplexing, SSL
acceleration and protection against denial-of-service attacks .

Virtualization is where the N2000 devices differ. The Sun N2120V
lets users define multiple switch and router instances (called
vswitches and vrouters) on the same hardware, each with unique
broadcast domains. One N2120V can be configured with up to 10
instances of virtual switches and routers, each with routing
tables that can reuse the same address space. Virtual switches
and routers also can span multiple physical devices, with up to
128 interfaces per vrouter.

Virtualization is useful for companies looking to partition
routing information between different divisions, locations or
customers. This feature also lets network managers define
different domains, or tiers, based on application type.

For more on the Clear Choice Test of the Sun Secure Application
Switch N2120V, see: <http://www.networkworld.com/nlprodrev7981>

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Newman is president of Network Test, an independent engineering
services consultancy in Westlake Village, Calif. He can be
reached at dnewman@networktest.com
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