Feature tables

Network World, 11/01/99

Traffic shaper comparisons

Feature/function	Packeteer PacketShaper	NetReality WiseWan 200
Network implementation	LAN side of router	Betw. router and CSU/DSU
Traffic controlling method	TCP/IP session rate control	Buffer manager
Network interfaces	10/100 Ethernet	T-1 (frame relay, leased), T-3
Management	CLI, Web GUI	Control PC required
Auto. applicaton recognition	Yes	Yes
Data trending	Yes	Yes
Guaranteed response time	Supported	Supported

Web cache comparisons

Feature/function CacheFlow 520 Cobalt CacheRaQ 2

Network interfaces Three 10/100 Fast Ethernet Dual 10/100 Fast Ethernet

Storage capacity Up to 18G bytes Up to 12.7G bytes

RAM capacity Up to 384M bytes Up to 256M bytes

URL filtering Present Present

Protocol support HTTP, FTP HTTP, FTP (.exe) and Java applets

Int Yes No

Management Java applet Web browser, telnet (advanced)

Load balancer comparisons

Class Ports Protocols Persis-
tent HTTP con-
nect-
ion sup-
port Filtering Mgmt Redun-
dan-
cy Server agents

Alteon
Ace
Switch 180 Load-
bal. switch 8 10/
100 or 1000TX TCP, UDP, HTTP, FTP, TFTP, SSL, DNS, telnet, NNTP Yes Source
/dest.
addr, proto-
col,
Layer 4,
ports,
URL CLI, Web GUI, SNMP, RMON Un-
supp. No

Arrow Point CS-100 Ded. plat-
form 16 10/
100TX TCP,
UDP,
FTP, TFTP,
cook-
ies Yes Com-
mon
DoS at-
tacks,
source
/dest
addr,
proto-
col,
URL CLI, SNMP, RMON Un-
supp. No

Coy-
ote Point Equal-
izer Ded. plat-
form 2 10/
100TX HTTP,
SSL,
FTP, POP,
IMAP,
SMTP,
LDAP,
ASP,
NNTP Yes Un-
supp CLI, Web GUI Supp. Yes, not req.

F5 Big/ip Ded. plat-
form 2 10/
100TX (more avail) TCP,
UDP,
HTTP,
SMTP,
FTP, LDAP, DNS, SSL Yes Com-
mon
DoS
at-
tacks,
source
/dest
addr,
ports SSH (Sec. CLI), SSL brow-
ser Supp. No

Found-
ry Ser-
ver
Iron Load-bal. switch 24 10/
100TX, 2 1000TX TCP, UDP, SSL, FTP, telnet, SMTP, HTTP, POP2, DNS Yes TCP SYN, proto-
col, dest. addr CLI, telnet, Web GUI, GUI Un
supp No

Hydra
Web 5000 Ded. plat-
form 4 10/
100TX (FDDI avail) HTTP, cook-
ies, FTP, IP svcs Yes Un
supp. CLI Supp. Yes

RAD
Ware Web Ser-
ver Dir-
ector Ded. plat-
form 4 10/
100TX HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, DNS, NNTP No IP, TCP, UDP source / dest. (IP addr). GUI Supp. No

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