coyote point announces new si series

At Networld+Interop 2005, Las Vegas, May 2005 – Coyote Point Systems, Inc. announced its new Equalizer SI Series, web server performance optimization appliances built to address the core availability and performance requirements of mainstream websites and server farms. The new Equalizer SI Series systems integrate an enhanced version of Coyote Point's adaptive server load balancing and traffic management software, consolidated switch intelligence and the latest Intel processor-based performance.

Equalizer SI Series systems deliver a range of advanced and highly adaptive server/network load balancing and cluster management capabilities for data centre environments that require the high-end reliability, performance and scalability of "big iron" servers with the low, incremental cost of ownership now possible with today's commodity servers.

Industry estimates from IDC and others forecast that the majority of volume server deployments are moving to the popular rackmount and blade form factors. The Equalizer SI Series provides data centres with a highly adaptive and incrementally scalable way to standardize on these commodity server environments that are increasingly favoured by e-commerce, government, education, finance, media and other online business operations.

The new Equalizer SI Series family includes the enterprise-class E450si, mid-range E350si and entry-level E250si. New features and enhancements include:

• Consolidated switching capacity of up to 16 ports with managed intelligence for integrated data centre front end topologies
• Support for up to 8,000,000 concurrent connections with wire-speed throughput
• Incrementally scalable load balancing and traffic management for an unlimited number of virtual servers and up to 64 servers per cluster
• Adaptive protection against massive Denial of Service (DoS) attacks
• Built-in flash memory for zero-downtime reliability
• Enhanced SSL acceleration for up to 4,000 encrypted transactions per second
• Expanded "match rules" to provide additional content switching options
• Enhanced Web interface for point-and-click operation of configuration options