Secure transactions are slow and tedious, often consuming a large portion of network resources.
A new breed of SSL accelerators promises to speed secure transactions and take that processing responsibility off of already taxed Web servers. Radware announced last week its new CertainT 100 SSL Accelerator device, a dedicated appliance that manages secure traffic. A farm of CertainT 100 devices, combined with Radware's flagship load balancer, the Web Server Director, can scale up to 20,000 transactions per second, according to Hooman Beheshti, Radware's chief technology officer. The Web Server Director could direct incoming traffic to either farm to be processed as needed. This is significant, especially for sites with heavy e-commerce traffic, said Greg Howard, principal analyst at HTRC Group.