Enabling Efficient, Scalable, and Agile Cloud Service Delivery
Purpose-built on a scalable, distributed architecture, Brocade ADX application delivery solutions provide the flexibility and scale to meet the demands of service-driven data centers. Whether an organization requires dedicated hardware, hardware-based multitenancy, or a virtual platform, the Brocade ADX Series provides a comprehensive application delivery portfolio that accelerates application performance, increases application availability, and improves application security.
Run your applications efficiently at the speed of business with the Brocade ADX series
- Minimize TCO: Helps reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and rapidly deploys application delivery services by running the Brocade Virtual ADX (vADX™) Application Delivery Switch on industry-standard x86 servers
- Maximize infrastructure utilization: Consolidates application delivery hardware infrastructure with Brocade ADX hardware-based virtualization—reducing CapEx and OpEx by up to 75percent
- Grow on-demand: Allows on-demand performance and capacity scalability with a pay-as-you-grow licensing model for fixed platforms and fully interchangeable modules for chassis systems
- Speed up service creation: Simplifies the deployment of new and differentiated revenue streams to increase Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) through the Brocade OpenScript engine
- Optimize SSL transactions: Secures Web communications through SSL while eliminating the SSL burden from application servers through hardware-accelerated 2048-bit SSL encryption
- Mitigate application attacks: Provides reliable protection against many forms of network and application attacks with best-in-class SYN proxy, DDoS protection, and DNS deep packet inspection
- Transition to IPv6 seamlessly: Transitions seamlessly to the growing IPv6-based world through comprehensive IPv6 server load balancing, routing, and gateway services
- Automate application delivery services: Helps reduce operational costs by enabling the automation and orchestration of application delivery with the Brocade Application Resource Broker
- Centralize management: Enables control of application management and provisioning through rich XML APIs, simplifying integration with third-party, or homegrown orchestration, and automation tools
Build your heterogeneous data center deployment models
- Purpose-built hardware for a physical infrastructure build-out:
- Brocade ADX 1000 Series: Compact 1U fixed form platform
- Brocade ADX 4000 Series: Chassis-based 4U modular system
- Brocade ADX 10000 Series: Chassis-based 10U modular system
- Hardware-based virtualization for a shared, multitenant environment:
- Multiple, fully isolated virtual Brocade ADX instances to run on on a single Brocade ADX system when the the physical Brocade ADX system is deployed in a shared multitenant mode
- Virtual platform for a virtualized data center and cloud environment:
- Brocade Virtual ADX provides the ultimate flexibility and portability in a software networking platform

