The Sun Secure Application Switch - N2000 Series helps enterprises reduce the cost and complexity of secure network computing through improved resource utilization, service consolidation, and leading price/performance. The Sun Secure Application Switch - N2000 Series integrates Gigabit wire-speed application switching, chip-level embedded security, and dynamic resource virtualization. This integration of services into a single system helps to greatly reduce TCO and simplify management of distributed computing environments by eliminating and consolidating costly specialized components such as legacy server load balancers, SSL accelerators, and bandwidth management appliances. The Sun Secure Application Switch - N2000 Series delivers breakthrough price/performance, providing application switching throughput as high as 3 Gbps and SSL cryptographic throughput as high as 2 Gbps. Fine-grained Layer 4 through Layer 7 filtering and hardware-based TCP termination allow you to intelligently switch traffic without impacting performance. In addition, optional virtual switching technology, which supports the creation of as many as 10 virtual switches per system in select configurations, helps maximize resource utilization and lets you accommodate different workloads without rewiring or swapping hardware.

Designed to maximize deployment flexibility, the space-efficient, 2RU, Sun Secure Application Switch - N2000 Series is available in four configurations: The Sun N2040 switch provides 40 10/100Base-T Ethernet ports and four Small Form Factor (SFF) pluggable GbE ports, with the Sun N2040V switch adding virtual switching capabilities to this configuration. The Sun N2120 switch provides 12 SFF pluggable GbE ports, with the Sun N2120V switch adding virtual switching capabilities to this configuration.

Key Applications:

• E-commerce
• Supply Chain
• Service Delivery Networking Solutions
• Content Creation, Management and Delivery
• Portal Server
• Web Services

Key Industries:

• Education/Research
• Financial Services
• Government
• Healthcare
• Manufacturing
• Media / Entertainment / Publishing
• Retail Trade
• Service Providers

Key Features:

• Integrated application switching, load balancing, SSL acceleration, and attack protection
• High-performance Layer 4 through Layer 7 application switching and load balancing with hardware-based TCP termination
• Inline and out-of-band health checking
• Optional virtual switching technology
• Advanced embedded management system with industry standard CLI, HTTPS GUI, SNMPv1/v2/v3, and XML

Specifications:

• Performance:
  • 64-Gbps nonblocking switch fabric
  • Up to 3 Gbps of application switching throughput
  • Up to 2 Gbps of SSL cryptographic throughput
• Application Switching and Load Balancing:
  • Up to 3 Gbps of application switching throughput
  • Up to 250,000 new Layer 4 through Layer 7 connections per second
  • Up to 2 million concurrent Layer 4 through Layer 7 connections per second
  • Bidirectional application switching on HTTP header, URI, cookie, payload, and content
  • Client stickiness through switch-managed cookies and the client source address and port
  • Load balancing algorithms: weighted source address hash, weighted random distribution, round robin, least connections, where weighting can be statically assigned or dynamically adjusted based on realtime measurements of response times
  • Load balancing of devices transparent to participating end systems (caches and proxies)
  • Bridge mode load balancing is supported for noninvasive layer-3 drop-in deployments
• Optional Virtual Switching:
  • Up to 10 virtual switches per system when using Sun N2040V switches and Sun N2120V switches
  • Dynamic allocation of switch resources into secure partitions
• Networking: Sun N2040/N2040V switches:
  • 40 10/100Base-T Ethernet ports
  • Four SFF pluggable GbE ports
• Sun N2120/N2120V switches:
  • 12 SFF pluggable GbE ports