RackForce's Advance Network Services

RackForce understands your needs for fast and efficient data transfer regardless the number of traffics and the size of the data that is being transferred. To accomodate this need, RackForce offers couple of advanced network services:

• Server Load Balancing (SLB)
• Quality of Services (QoS) Routing

Server Load Balancing (SLB)

For high-traffic, high-availability websites and applications, RackForce has load balancing multi-port switches. These switches do load balancing in hardware and can handle extremely heavy loads. They also have advanced features, including: Intrinsic Persistence Checking, Comprehensive Server Checking and Stateful Fail-over.

Load balancing was developed to address the problem of overloaded servers. A Server Load Balancer is placed between the client and a group of servers and configured so that, although multiple servers may be on one side of the SLB, they appear to be one very large and powerful server that never goes down. The SLB takes on the IP address that the client is trying to contact, becoming a Virtual Server that directs the client to one of the servers in the load balanced group of servers. The SLB may be a dedicated device that uses software to perform all traffic management decisions or it may be a multi-port switching device that uses hardware to perform these functions allowing for greater performance.

For more information please contact sales@rackforce.com

Also see: [SLB White Paper]

QoS Routing

RackForce's network is designed to carry a variety of traffic with expectations of service that vary from application to application. In the past, all data applications used a QoS a (Quality of Service) strategy called "best effort." Using this QoS strategy, network operations were limited to providing Service Level Agreements (SLAs) based solely on general availability of and reachability through the infrastructure, and not on how well applications performed within the infrastructure. However, this model is quickly becoming obsolete.

Today's applications range from high-bandwidth file transfers needing networks that can carry large amounts of data, to interactive, low-bandwidth, low latency "chat" applications, and real-time applications like multimedia and IP telephony that require predictable delay characteristics from the network. Voice over IP (VoIP) is a major component of the new "converged" data network infrastructure that promises a new set of applications and services. Even games are now creating demand for QoS as, all other things being equal, network performance can make the difference between the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.

RackForce provides a complete solution, our network is designed to offer QoS using a differentiated service model architecture. In particular, RackForce offers:

• High performance switching/routing platforms
• Wirespeed performance with features enabled
• A comprehensive QoS framework
• Policy-based network management

RackForce's network delivers QoS by integrating wire-speed Layer 2, 3, and 4 switching with policy-based traffic classification, prioritization, and routing. A non-blocking switch fabric ensures our Network will not only keep up with today's bandwidth-hungry, delay-sensitive applications, but will future-proof your network equipment investment. Because we can do ASIC based routing all the way to Layer 4, we can read deeper into the packet, traffic can be identified, classified, prioritized, and routed in hardware at the application level. This enables RackForce to provide differentiated service with real-time traffic such as gaming, or running latency-sensitive applications.

For more information please contact sales@rackforce.com