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Alteon® NG VA Achieves 20 Gbps Capacity in an OpenStack NFV Environment
April 2016 by Marc Jacob
Radware® proves that it is possible to achieve and sustain virtualized performance above and beyond industry expectations for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) using an OpenStack environment. The Alteon NG Virtual Appliance is capable of handling 20Gpbs with OpenStack in an NFV environment.
This industry first is also more than five times faster than the nearest competitors. This means that network operators can truly leverage the advantages of virtual infrastructures and OpenStack environments. While OpenStack has advantages for network optimization, the downside has always been that virtual application speeds slow dramatically.
Running natively in Openstack the Alteon NG VA has achieved industry record performance of 10 Gigabits per second. Using partner technologies such as 6WIND’s Virtual Accelerator™, the Alteon NG VA performance was verified to reach 20 Gbps.
It is challenging to run OpenStack environments that support the high network performance requirements of large carrier and enterprise networks. Radware’s Alteon NG ADC is designed to deliver the performance necessary to support today’s virtual networking infrastructure. The Alteon NG acts as a Virtual Network Function (VNF) or a Virtual Machine (VM) and leverages standard KVM hypervisor environments. The Alteon NG platform is the highest performing virtual ADC on the market today.
