Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager is a high-availability, application-centric traffic management and load balancing product. It provides control, intelligence, security and resilience for all your application traffic. ZXTM is intended for organizations hosting valuable business-critical services, such as TCP and UDP-based services like HTTP (web) and media delivery, and XML™-based services such as Web Services.
ZXTM's unique architecture ensures it can handle large volumes of network traffic efficiently. Its TrafficClusterTM scalability allows you to add more front-end traffic managers or back-end servers to your cluster as the need arises. The cluster size is unlimited, and the performance of ZXTM grows in line with the performance of the hardware.
Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager is a highly capable solution which can also be adapted and extended as new requirements arise. Using the TrafficScript language you can write tailored traffic management rules to inspect, manage and route requests and responses. TrafficScript rules can manage connections in any TCP or UDP-based protocol.
ZXTM is secure out-of-the-box, and is hardened against intrusion and Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. It incorporates the fastest and strongest SSL encryption technologies, and can efficiently decrypt and encrypt large numbers of SSL connections. TrafficScript rules, security policies and other content-based calculations can be applied to the encrypted request while retaining full end-to-end security.
For critical, high-availability solutions, ZXTM offers TrafficClusterTM redundancy. This allows you to have unlimited numbers of active and standby front-end servers. If one of your active machines fails, ZXTM automatically brings a standby server into action; in the case of subsequent failure, more standby servers are available to take up the load. This ensures that there is no single point of failure in the system.
ZXTM incorporates a centralized web-based administration console that monitors and manages each traffic management unit in your service infrastructure. It can be deployed on Linux (x86, x86_64, IA64), FreeBSD (x86) and Solaris (SPARC, x86, x86_64).
