Organizations that handle moderate to high levels of secure transactions, such as online merchants, financial institutions, and Web hosting companies, demand exceptionally fast SSL processing. The Sun Fire B10p SSL Proxy Blade delivers just what you need. By off-loading and accelerating SSL decryption and encryption tasks from system processors, this specialty blade can significantly increase the performance and availability of your secure applications at a low cost.The Sun Fire B10p SSL Proxy Blade enables you to seamlessly integrate SSL acceleration capabilities into the Sun Fire B1600 Blade Platform. Designed specifically to optimize SSL processing, the custom hardware specialty blade can process SSL transactions up to tens of times faster than CPU-based SSL processing. At the same time, the Sun Fire B10p SSL Proxy Blade increases platform utilization by freeing system processors to focus on their core strength of application processing.
The Sun Fire B10p SSL Proxy Blade further increases performance and traffic handling capacity through its support for direct proxy-to-client response. This allows the proxy blade to send encrypted responses directly to a client, eliminating routing back through the Sun Fire B10n Content Load Balancing Blade.
The Sun Fire B10p SSL Proxy Blade also enhances system security. Clear-text support enables the platform to balance secure loads based on content by sending decrypted clear-text messages back to the load balancer. The clear text can also be leveraged for intrusion detection applications. In addition, tamperproof key and certificate protection as well as centralized key and certificate administration deliver higher levels of security and ease of management.
A tightly integrated, fully tested component of the Sun Fire B1600 Blade Platform, the Sun Fire B10p SSL Proxy Blade delivers optimal performance, availability, and reliability. The blade plugs directly into the Sun Fire B1600 Blade System Chassis, supporting easy installation. The flexible, modular architecture also allows you to easily scale the solution from a single chassis to across multiple racks of servers. Hot-plug and hot-swap features enable you to dynamically add or remove resources, helping you to control costs through flexible resource provisioning. Dual Gigabit Ethernet connections, dual power rails, and support for link and blade failover also provide high availability for increased service levels. Command line interface and SNMP support offer additional management flexibility.