Before revision: Some examples: Storage appliances provide massive amounts of storage and additional higher level functionality (ex: Disk mirroring and Data striping) for multiple attached systems using the transparent local storage area networks computer paradigm.SAN Data Center - Network World Network appliances are general purpose routersRouters- About.com which provide firewall protection, Transport Layer Security (TLS), messaging, access to specialized networking protocols (like the ebXML Message Service) and bandwidth multiplexing for the multiple systems they front-end.Definition of:network appliance- Pcmag.com Backup and disaster recovery appliances computer appliances that are integrated backup software and backup targets, sometimes with hypervisors to support local DR of protected servers.
After revision: Some examples: Storage appliances provide massive amounts of storage and additional higher level functionality (ex: Disk mirroring and Data striping) for multiple attached systems using the transparent local storage area networks computer paradigm.SAN Data Center - Network World Network appliances are general purpose routersRouters - About.com which provide firewall protection, Transport Layer Security (TLS), messaging, access to specialized networking protocols (like the ebXML Message Service) and bandwidth multiplexing for the multiple systems they front-end.Definition of:network appliance- Pcmag.com Backup and disaster recovery appliances computer appliances that are integrated backup software and backup targets, sometimes with hypervisors to support local DR of protected servers.