BOS means affordable fast access to data, increased productivity and improved overall user satisfaction, all necessary qualities in the competitive world of Information Technology. Moving data closer to users allows quicker access - avoiding backbone delays with the added value resulting in a cost effective application.

Implementing BOS will help to control and avoid server meltdowns and strongly enhance the reliability of the service you provide.
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BOS provides:

  • Reduced bandwidth costs maximizing utilisation
  • Quicker Internet response time - enhanced user experience
  • Network Scalability
  • Content filtering capabilities - increasing productivity
  • Optimised delivery of on-demand and live streaming media
  • Attractive price point - space sensitive

Implementing BOS will help to control and avoid server meltdowns and strongly enhance the reliability of the service you provide.

There are steps that small to medium sized businesses can do to alleviate the causes of the problem. The BOS solution is available and affordable and will reflect positively on your budget and commitment to providing a quality service.

BOS intelligently provides an integrated hardware and software solution for enterprise proxy services that comprises two appliances; the Network Appliance NetCache C1100 Series and the Foundry Networks ServerIron TCS (Transparent Cache Switch).

The impact of BOS on your network’s Internet or WAN bandwidth is net positive, band-width gain is realised when a BOS product is deployed.

The BOS offering consists of the following Hardware and Software Support:

  • Network Appliance’s NetCache C1100. 2 Port 10/100 Base-T Ethernet, 9GB, 256MB ECC Memory Network Appliance Warranty Software for NetCache Software support updates for 3 years.
  • Foundry Networks ServerIronTCS 8 Port ServerIron, 400 Mhz processor, 32Mb system DRAM, TCS software only, 8 Ports 10/100 Base TX (RJ45), Console cable, Rack Mount Kit Foundry Warranty Bronze-03-SI TechNet Bronze support, ServerIron, TCS Special Access to TechWeb 9 x 5 TAC access Access to software updates and documentation
  • Installation and Configuration on application.

NETCACHE C1100 - Network Appliance

Enterprise, remote or branch offices, small/medium-sized businesses, and ISP/Telco remote POPs select entry-level NetCache products for their attractive price point and space-sensitive design. The C1100 series supports multiple T1 connections for HTTP environments and T3 connec-tions for streaming applications. The affordable, fast access to data and content filtering capabilities increase productivity and improve overall user satisfaction. The appliance architecture is especially attractive in these environments where there is often limited local technical expertise.

Features
The NetCache appliances include many built-in features that provide uniquely simple, scalable, and secure content delivery solutions. This comprehensive feature set cannot be matched in the content delivery market.

Reliability, Availability and Scalability
NetCache appliances maximize content availability and minimize disruptions to users' network access thereby improving productivity and the overall Web experience. Key features include:

  • Appliance architecture—focus on high-performance content delivery
  • Data ONTAP™ Microkernel OS—minimizes overhead and increases data availability
  • Write Anywhere File System (WAFL™)—the NetApp® patented file system optimizes disk to network data transfer
  • RAID—integrated into Microkernel for protection from data loss due to disk failures*
  • Redundant hot-pluggable power supplies and cooling fans for ensured uptime*
  • Battery-backed NVRAM for increased content protection*
  • ECC memory protection for data integrity
  • Cableless design for rapid component upgrades and repairs*
  • Redundant copies of OS

Simplicity of administration
Our appliance architecture provides ease of use to reduce administrative costs and lower total cost of ownership. The appliance architecture is based on our ONTAP and WAFL software and includes:

  • Specialised content management and delivery software
  • Multisystem administration for large deployments
  • Log tools for multi-appliance analysis and reporting
  • Fast installation and reboot times.
  • Enterprise framework software integration providing centralized appliance management
  • Web-based or command line administration
  • Temperature, voltage, and power monitoring for proactive system management
  • Easily retractable trays for decreased repair and service times*

Security
NetCache appliances provide a secure architecture and advanced security features to help protect sensitive information from intruders inside or outside your network. Key security features include:

  • Hardened TCP/IP Stack to prevent common network attacks even in front of firewalls
  • iCAP-enabled filtering and virus scanning
  • Natively supported third party filter lists
  • NTLM, LDAP, and RADIUS authentication support
  • Access Control Lists

Multiprotocol
Our content delivery appliances provide industry-leading protocol support, giving you the flexibility to deliver a variety of services without a complex IT infrastructure. Network Appliance offers:

  • Multiprotocol support for HTTP, FTP, NNTP
  • Support for major streaming media technologies
  • iCAP-enabled appliances for flexible access to value-added services NetCache C1100 Series

SERVERIRON TCS - Foundry Systems

Transparent Cache Switching (TCS)
Eliminate the need to configure each client browser, improve Internet response time, decrease WAN access costs, and increase overall web caching solution resiliency by balancing web traffic across multiple caches. ServerIron improves service availability by implementing cache health checking and redirects client requests to the next available cache server or directly to the origin server in the event of a cache or cache server farm failure.

Transparent Cache Switching
ServerIron switches improve Internet response time and decrease WAN access costs by redirecting web traffic destined for remote Internet hosts to local cache servers. Foundry's TCS can be used with any cache server that supports transparent redirection including those from leading vendor Network Appliance.

Foundry's TCS offers network managers a resilient web caching solution that significantly simplifies administration. Unlike proxy server solutions that require manual configuration of each client's browser, ServerIron transparently intercepts and switches HTTP client request to an available cache server without reconfiguring the client's browser. Network administrators can configure the device to switch traffic based on source and destination IP address.

ServerIron switches provide the industry's most powerful content aware cache switching features to build intelligent content networks that route traffic based on content rather than just IP addresses. ServerIronXL/TCS is exclusively optimized for content aware Transparent Cache Switching (TCS) and is targeted to remove price / performance barriers to the mass deployment of content aware cache switches. ServerIronXL/TCS includes the following content switching features:

  • Intelligent load balancing of caches to eliminate content duplication, increase cache-hit ratio, and improve the Internet response time
  • Accelerate delivery of dynamic content and optimize the cache utilization by bypassing the caches automatically for dynamic content
  • Specify content-based rules to determine what content should be cached
  • Organize caches into logical groups that serve different content to provide differentiated service offerings to content providers