The Future
of Secure
Application
Deliver
Headquarters
Milpitas, CA Array Networks At-a-Glance
Technology
30+ Patents
Products
App Delivery Controller (Load
Balancer & WAF)
Secure Remote Access with MFA
and SSO
SSL Orchestration
Global Operations
North America, Europe, India,
South East Asia, Japan, Middle
East and Africa
Markets
Enterprise, Service Providers,
Public Sector
Customers
5000+ Worldwide
Array Networks – India
Presence and Capabilities
Established India Operations in
2008
Certified Class 1 Local Supplier
under MII (Make in India)
Guidelines
Over 70% Local Content in
products and solutions
24/7 TAC Support based in India
for prompt customer assistance
R&D Centre located in
Bangalore, driving innovation
Array’s
ADC (LB &
WAF
Introduction to Load Balancer Technology
• What is Load Balancing?
Distributes incoming traffic across
multiple servers to ensure no single
point of failure.
• Basic Types of Load Balancing:
Round Robin: Requests are
distributed in rotation.
Least Connections: Routes traffic to
the server with the fewest
connections.
IP based: Directs requests based on
the client's IP address.
The Role of Application Delivery Controllers
(ADCs)
• What is an ADC?
A more advanced form of load balancer that not only balances
traffic but also enhances application security, availability, and
performance.
• Why ADC over Traditional Load Balancers?
Traffic acceleration (e.g., SSL Offloading, caching,
Compression, TCP optimization).
Content switching (directing traffic based on URLs, cookies,
etc.).
Key Features of an ADC
• Load Balancing: Ensure consistent availability and redundancy.
• SSL Offloading: Reduces the load on application servers by handling SSL
encryption and decryption on the ADC.
• Web Application Firewall (WAF): Provides protection against web attacks like
SQL injection, cross-site scripting, etc.
• Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): Distributes traffic between data centres
globally to improve resilience.
• Content Caching: Stores frequently requested content to reduce load times.
• TCP Optimization: Enhances connection handling and reduces overhead.
• Compression: Compresses data to save bandwidth and lower infrastructure
expenses.
Benefits of Application Delivery Controllers
(ADCs)
• Optimized Application Performance: SSL Offloading, TCP Optimization,
Caching, Compression.
• Enhanced Security: Protection against web attacks DDoS Mitigation, SSL
.,
Inspection.
• Application Availability : Health checks ensure traffic is routed to healthy
servers.
• Scalability: Seamlessly adds new servers or applications without downtime.
• Cost Efficiency : Optimizes server resources, reducing hardware and
maintenance costs. Compresses data to save bandwidth and lower infrastructure
expenses.
• Global Reach with GSLB: Distributes traffic across global data centres for
better performance. Provides disaster recovery by rerouting traffic during
outages.
Current Challenges in Application
Delivery
Exploring Performance and Security Hurdles in Application
Delivery
Performance Security Complex High Operational
Bottlenecks Vulnerabilities and Integration with Costs Due to
Impacting User Data Breach Risks Existing Systems Inefficiencies
Experience
• Applications should be
• Applications could be • Streamlining • Improving overall
high performing –
accessed by integration processes efficiency of IT
99.9999% uptime. with existing systems
unauthorized users, infrastructure comes
• Application must fulfill can be complex and
can be accessed from with an additional
requests from million hamper business cost
concurrent users (peak internal to network • It is crucial to ensure • Reducing operational
loads could be 20K, and remotely seamless integration costs by eliminating
50K pps) • Applications could with inefficiencies is vital
• Applications could be have data breach via minimal disruption to for Organizations
compromised users business operations
distributed between
on-prem, cloud
APV Series
Application
Delivery Controller
Key features:
Array’s proprietary SSL stack.
Support all TLS versions.
Traffic Analytics and Logging.
Customization through scripting for needs
of application.
HW based Compression & SSL
Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) & Full
DNS
API and Automation.
Session Persistency, Advance Health
Check, Content redirection, IPv6 support,
Caching & TCP multiplexing
Real-World Use Cases
• Financial Services (Banking & Insurance)
• Challenge: Secure handling of sensitive customer data and ensuring high
availability of online banking applications like core banking, Mobile,
internet, UPI etc.
• Solution: Array ADC provides SSL offloading, Load Balancing, Application
Security, and session persistence to secure and optimize online services.
•E-Commerce and Retail
• Challenge: Handling high traffic during peak shopping seasons (e.g., Black
Friday, Cyber Monday).
• Solution: Array ADC distributes traffic across multiple servers, ensuring the
website stays responsive, even during traffic surges.
Real-World Use Cases
• Government and Public Sector
• Challenge: Providing uninterrupted access to public services and citizen
portals while ensuring high security.
• Solution: Array ADC enhances the reliability and security of government
portals by providing high availability, SSL offloading, and WAF protection.
•Education (Online Learning Platforms) and Media and Entertainment
• Challenge: Ensuring uninterrupted access to learning management
systems (LMS) and video lectures for students worldwide.
• Solution: Array ADC balance the load between servers to ensure that users
from different regions can access the content with minimal delay
ASF Series
Web Application
Firewall
Key features:
Positive & Negative Security Model.
Inbuilt Advance BOT protection .
API Security.
Dynamic Defence.
L7 DDOS Protection & DNS Protection.
HTTP conformance check
Web Anti-Defacement Protection.
IP reputation
Integration with SIEM.
ICAP Support
Flexible Deployment
Options
Dedicated, virtual and virtualized ADC appliances
IaaS providers can offer a full range of flexible load balancing options, optimized for flexibility,
performance or both
Flexibility Flexibility +
Performance
Performance
APV Series AVX Series
Dedicated ADCs Network Functions
Platforms
Private Cloud Supports 1 to 8 vCPUs
VMware, XenServer, Up to 32 vAPV, vxAG,
OpenXen, KVM and or 3rd-party instances
Scalable from 7Gbps Dedicated SSL, I/O,
Hyper-V to 160 Gbps compute resources
Public Cloud Proven cloud track
Azure, AWS and GCP record
(with HA)
SSL
Orchestration
SSLO
SIEM Traditional Network Layout
SSL SSL SSL
Array ASF
Server WAF IPS Internet
SSL SSL Firewall
Client AV DLP
Tightly Coupled SSL Low High
Network Performance equipment investment,
architecture Bottleneck utilization complex
and maintenance
scalability
Traffic between Limited by the
As the number of
security devices is Encryption and current
security devices
indistinguishable, decryption at every environment,
increases, so do
leading to high layer increase procurement costs
troubleshooting
costs for frequent device load and increase. Unable to
time and
network latency. efficiently allocate
maintenance costs
adjustments. performance.
SIEM Orchestrator Layout
• Decoupling security
devices with network
topology
Array ASF
IPS AV DLP • Reduce SSL performance
impact
• Fully utilize device
computation resource
Security Devices and easy scaling
Network • Low investment and
SSL maintenance cost
Tightly CoupledSSL
Network
architecture
Server Firewall
SSL Array APV
Encrypt/Decrypt
Internet
Client
Secure
Remote
Access
SSL VPN
AG Series
Secure Remote &
Mobile Access
Access
L3 VPN
L4 RDP
L7 Web
SSL/TLS Encryption
Authentication
LDAP, SAML, OAuth
MFA, SSO, IDaaS
HW ID, Client Certs
Policy Management
Per User
Per Resource
Per Virtual Portal
Network
HCI
AVX
Guaranteed Performance
Dedicated CPU and memory per VM
SR-IOV SSL and interfaces per VM
Array
Network
Easy VNF Deployments
Functions Platform OS built for easy VNF on boarding
Platform Streamline complex SR-IOV to VNF
configuration
Dedicated Network
Appliance and Software for
Virtualized Network
Functions
Reduce Complexity
Monitor performance & resources of VNFs
Pre-defined VNF resource sizes allow easy
resource planning for VNFs
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