Acceleration

• SSL acceleration — packet prioritization/concentration — ToS field flagging
• An adaptative compression based on top of a mime-type and actual browser capabilities knowledge base
• Image Processing : vector quantification of the palette — Optimisation by "quality factor", over-pixelisation, interlacing, progressive mode, grey scaling
• High Performance RAM Cache : configurable revalidation rules, multi-quality storage
• Instant download , buffering, browser-server decoupling
• Connection management: configurable pipelining and keep-alive, serial/pooled reuse — Scalable connection bundles
• Remote cache management
• Geo-distribution of components in a CDN environment or multi-homed hosting

Security  —  SSL

• Protection of data by SSL-ization  —  SSL termination point
• Protection of lower layers : ping of death, synflood, semi-open connections
• HTTP protection: jumbo payload, off by one, brute force, parser evasion, transversal directory attack
• Application protection: SQL injection, Cross Site Scripting  —  cookie and variable inspection
• Inspection of posted data, behavioural learning engine (neural network)
• Unencrypted or encrypted upward connection to backend server
• Server certificates: presentation  —  encryption  —  chaining (PKI)  —  Passphrase
• Client certificates : authentification  —  Feeding back of information from the client certificate
• Cipher Suite: predefined security level and fine tuning

Improving workload handling capability, availability

• Cluster support : routing by URL  —  queue network, scalable connection bundle
• Levels 7 and 4 load balancing: Round Robin and Weighted Round Robin
• Session management by source IP address, private cookie, application cookie, SSL session ID
• Health checking: automatic server failure detection by GET/HEAD request, configurable URL
• Server Offloading
• Installation in Active/Active mode for peak management and VRRP mode

Misc functionalities

• Deployment in Reverse Proxy mode: URL rewriting
• Content modification and insertion in HTML pages, scripts, style sheets (CSS)
• Protocol correction: modification of the HTTP headers fields

Monitoring - Statistics

• ActivReport: a specific logs processing module
• Support for Syslog and log export
• SNMP V2 with proprietary MIB
• Compatibility with all supervision tools on the market
• Access in secure Web GUI, CLI and console serial port
• URL Rewriting, on the fly page modification, content insertion, protocol correction

Implementation

• Activ Fail-over card: ensure uninterrupted traffic
• Can be installed while the application is running, with no IP addressing, in 2 hours
• Plug'n Activ Mode: no modifications to clients workstations, networks or applications
• Activation in 2 hours in non-intrusive mode without modifying the applications