Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager

A high performance Application Delivery Platform

ZXTM (Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager) manages your application traffic, inspecting, transforming and routing requests as it load-balances them across the application infrastructure. The powerful TrafficScript™ engine lets you implement whatever traffic management policies are most appropriate for your enterprise, drawing on the whole range of capabilities of ZXTM. Where necessary, Java™ Extensions can be used to implement additional, complex traffic transformations and other policies.

ZXTM is available as software (for physical or virtual servers), as a Virtual Appliance for VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3, and as SunFire™-based hardware appliances.


Capabilities and Benefits

Application Acceleration

By placing ZXTM in front of your networked and web-enabled applications, you can boost the number of transactions your infrastructure can handle, and dramatically increase the speed and responsiveness that your users experience.

Service Reliability

Detect and work around application and hardware failures, ensuring your services have the best possible availability, whatever the circumstances.

Application Security

Mitigate flash floods, filter invalid or malicious requests, apply access controls - all to be confident that your applications are hardened and your user data is safe.

Manage your traffic and infrastructure with ZXTM

ZXTM keeps you informed with detailed logs and status reports. Manage, transform and route traffic across multiple applications, and manage clusters of application servers to reduce your operational costs.


Protocol and Application Support

Application servers: WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Oracle, JBoss, SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Apache TomCat, Caucho Resin, Sun Java System Application Server, GlassFish, etc.
Web Servers: Apache, Zeus Web Server, IIS, SunONE, iPlanet, etc.
Web Applications: Exchange, Sharepoint, Outlook Web Access, etc.
Media Delivery: full RTSP (TCP and UDP) support for Windows Media Services, Darwin Streaming Server, Helix Server, QuickTime Streaming Server
VoIP Applications: support for SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)
Next-generation protocols, including on-the-fly acceleration, inspection and modification of SOA/XML and Web2.0/AJAX traffic
Detailed inspection and modification of long-lived protocols such as SMTP, POP3, IMAP and database sessions
FTP, DNS, almost any TCP or UDP-based protocol
Fully supports both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic, in mixed deployments where necessary

ZXTM's TrafficScript™ Rules Language and Java™ Extensions can inspect, modify and route any TCP or UDP protocol.