Stingray Traffic Manager

Despite increasing traffic loads, rapid change, and complex deployment infrastructures, online applications are still expected to deliver consistently excellent service levels. Stingray traffic management solutions provide complete control over user traffic, allowing administrators to accelerate, optimize, and secure key business applications. Now it’s possible to deliver these services more quickly and ensure the best possible performance across any deployment platform.

Application delivery controllers accelerate transactions, maximize availability, manage security policies, and provide a point of control to monitor and manage application traffic. Stingray Traffic Manager is a software-based ADC that provides unprecedented scale and flexibility to deliver applications across the widest range of environments, from physical and virtual data centers to public and hybrid clouds.

Stingray Traffic Manager benefits include:

• Speed: Accelerate services, increase capacity, and reduce costs by offloading performance-draining tasks such as SSL and compression onto Stingray Traffic Manager’s optimized implementations. Cache commonly requested content and optimize traffic delivery to applications so they’ll run as fast as they would in a perfect benchmark environment.
• Reliability: Improve application availability by intelligently distributing traffic, avoiding failed or degraded servers, monitoring performance problems, and shaping traffic spikes.
• Improved security: Stingray Traffic Manager operates as a deny-all gateway, only admitting traffic types it has been configured to admit. This provides full control over how traffic is internally routed. High-performance inspection can interrogate any part of a request or response to apply global filtering or scrubbing policies. The Stingray Application Firewall option also protects against a broad range of web application attacks.
• Ease of management: Stingray Traffic Manager makes it easy to manage how users interact with applications, and the infrastructure those applications depend on. Use it to shape, prioritize, and route traffic, to drain infrastructure resources prior to maintenance, and to upgrade user sessions across application instances, all while preserving the user experience that business demands.

Deployment options

Stingray Traffic Manager can be deployed:

• As software on the hardware or hypervisor
• As a virtual appliance on VMware, Xen, and OracleVM
• In any supported cloud infrastructure such as Amazon EC2, GoGrid, IIJ, Joyent, Rackspace, RightScale, SunGard and Voxel.

Stingray Traffic Manager Tech Specs

Model Specifications: Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager Configurations

Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager is available in several different performance and functionality configurations to suit the needs of any load balancing or application delivery requirement.

Performance is conditional and based on the capacity of underlying hardware and operating systems (where applicable). Throughput and SSL transactions are software limited. Unlimited configurations will utilize all available hardware resources in order to achieve maximum performance. Configurations may be upgraded to any greater configuration (including across-model numbers) by a license key exchange. Software or hardware updates are not necessary.

Stingray Traffic Manager Functionality

System Requirements: Stingray Traffic Manager Software and Virtual Appliances

Recommendations apply to small- to medium-size deployments with simple configurations. Additional hardware capacity will increase performance capacity, while caching will also support complex traffic management configurations. Additional hardware capacity is recommended when using the Stingray Application Firewall option.

Stingray Traffic Manager software may be installed on a supported operating system running on any supported physical server, or within supported Linux or Solaris guests on a wide range of virtualization platforms.

Protocol and application support includes:

• Application servers: WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Oracle, JBoss, SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Apache TomCat, Caucho Resin, Sun Java System Application Server, GlassFish Application Server, etc.
• Web servers: Apache, Zeus Web Server, IIS, SunONE, iPlanet, etc.
• Web applications: Exchange, SharePoint, Outlook Web Access, etc.
• Media delivery: full RTSP (TCP and UDP) support for Windows Media Services, Darwin Streaming Server, Helix Server, QuickTime Streaming Server
• VoIP applications: support for SIP (session initiation protocol)
• Next-generation protocols: including on-the-fly acceleration, inspection, and modification of SOA/XML and Web2.0/AJAX traffic
• Detailed inspection and modification of long-lived protocols: SMTP, POP3, IMAP, and database sessions
• FTP, DNS, and almost any TCP- or UDP-based protocol
• Both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic: in mixed deployments where necessary

The Stingray Traffic Manager TrafficScript Rules Language and Java Extensions can inspect, modify, and route any TCP or UDP protocol.