WedgeOS is implemented with a set of purpose built network stacks to ensure network connectivity and security services are not interrupted. Collectively these loads are called the High Availability (HA) Network Stack.
Today’s organizations are increasingly relying on their networks to complete their business objectives. Whether it is access to the corporate Ethernet, web collaborations, research etc; Business demand connectivity and can not face network down time which directly relates to employee productivity and bottom line. However, with HANS Wedge Networks provides a failover method to protect their end users.
High Availability Network Stack Benefits
With HA Network Stack, a WedgeOS based security device can be deployed in both router mode and bridge mode and offers the following benefits:
- High reliability of network connectivity: Rapid failover response time means no interruption to your network applications
- High reliability of DCI services: The standby device can provide the required devices immediately to provide the highest SLA of the DCI services
- Minimum management overhead: WedgeOS provides an advanced synchronization mechanism for the DCI devices within a HA cluster to ensure any configuration to one device in the cluster will automatically propagate to the other devices drastically reducing overhead
- Versatile HA configuration options to suit any networks
High Availability ("HA") and Load Balancing ("LB") Configuration Options
WedgeOS based devices support various HA and LB options including:
- RSTP based bridge failover with complete MAC/VLAN transparency; or RSVP based HA
- WCCP based HA and LB
- ICAP based HA and LB for web traffic
- Easy integration with the HA and LB configurations of Brocade, Radware, F5, etc.