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Vendor Name:   Radware
Solution Type:   Centralized
Solution Names:   AppDirector

Generic Technique Name (see "Field Guide to Application Delivery Systems" for Definitions) Does your Distributed ADS solution do this? If yes, what do you call this technique? If yes, list the protocols this technique supports.
Control Yes No    
Traffic Analysis & Capacity Planning CheckMark Health Monitoring and Traffic Classification & Redirection Citrix App Browsing, Citrix ICA, DNS, FTP, FIX, HTTP, IMAP4, LDAP, LDAPS, NNTP, POP3, RADIUS, RADIUS accounting, RTSP, SIP (TCP & UDP), SNMP, SSL
Traffic Marking *
Priority Handling CheckMark Traffic Classification & Shaping Predefined Classes include over 40 common applications, ToS or Diffserv bits
User-defined classification per any Layer 4-7 parameter or content
TCP Rate Control CheckMark Traffic Classification & Bandwidth Management Policies Predefined Classes include over 40 common applications, ToS or Diffserv bits
User-defined classification per any Layer 4-7 parameter or content
DoS Attack Prevention CheckMark DoS Shield & Behavioral DoS Protection DHCP, TCP SYN/TCP PSH, TCP RESET, TCP FIN, UDP/ICMP/IGMP, buffer overflows, SIP, Ping of Death, Land attack
Zero-day protection using adaptive behavioral analysis.
Acceleration Yes No    
Load Balancing CheckMark Load Balancing & Persistency Any TCP or UDP based protocol.
Local Caching Caching XML,. HTML, JavaScript, .XLS, .PPT, .DOC, .PDF, JPEG, GIF
TCP Offload CheckMark TCP Multiplexing TCP
Outbound TCP Optimization CheckMark TCP Optimization RFCs 1323 (Performance Extensions), 2018 & 2883 (Selective ACK), 2414 & 3390 (WTCP), 2581 & 2582 (Congestion Avoidance), 2861 (Congestion window validation), 3042 (Limited Transmit), Forward ACK (FACK), Configurable MTU and TCP reorder
SSL Offload CheckMark SSL Acceleration SSLv2, SSLv3, TLS, HTTPS, FTPS, SMTPS, POP3S, IMAPS, LDAPS, SIP/TLS
DES, 3DES, DH, DSS, MD5, RC2,RC4, RSA, SHA-1
FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certified
Dynamic HTML Compression CheckMark Compression XML,. HTML, JavaScript, .XLS, .PPT, .DOC, .PDF, JPEG, GIF
HTML Transformation CheckMark HTTP Multiplexing HTML, HTTP 1.0, 1.1

* AppDirector can classify and traffic-shape based TOS and DiffServ bit colors.