KEMP Technologies Doubles Performance with its New Load Balancer Appliance
LoadMaster 3500 provides affordable high performance traffic management for the medium sized business
Bethpage, N.Y. – August 14, 2007 – KEMP Technologies, a leading provider of affordable server load balancing and SSL acceleration solutions, today announced its latest product, the LoadMaster 3500. The new load balancer provides a highly efficient architecture, intelligently distributing traffic among servers – in-turn cutting costs for users. The LoadMaster 3500 has more than double the performance of its predecessor, the LoadMaster 3620, to provide customers with the best user experience possible.
The LoadMaster 3500 is a purpose-built 1U rack mountable appliance with 8 Gigabit-ports, up to 2Gbps combined throughput, and Layer 7 content switching with integrated ASIC-based SSL acceleration. The LoadMaster 3500 supports up to 100,000 L7 concurrent sessions and 2,000,000 L4 concurrent sessions, which increases functionality and overall performance of the server farm. KEMP Technologies offers all of these enterprise-class features at a price point comfortable for the medium sized business.
“With the KEMP LoadMaster 3500 load balancer, we are able to offer our customers a high end appliance including incomparable performance all while maintaining a very cost effective price point,” said Kevin Mahon CEO and president of KEMP Technologies. “The LoadMaster 3500 is an appliance that is extremely proficient at distributing web traffic, which gives our customers a feeling of security when integrating a load balancer into its e-commerce or interactive web applications sites for the first time.”
“The LoadMaster was designed to greatly improve our customer’s web services by enabling their servers to handle a dramatic increase in user activity while maintaining the site’s overall performance,” said Peter Melerud director of business development for KEMP Technologies. “We have made functionality our main goal when looking at how to improve our load balancers, which means never sacrificing performance for a higher price point.”
Additional benefits of the LoadMaster 3500 include full configuration using a web user interface, the ability to load balance traffic on multiple physical interfaces and support for redundant configuration for high availability. The appliance is environmentally friendly and fully RoHS compliant under the 2002/95/EU directive. The LoadMaster 3500 also includes a comprehensive first year warranty and technical support agreement.
About KEMP Technologies
KEMP Technologies is paving the way for small and medium Internet transaction-based businesses to take advantage of the sophisticated load balancing software required to insure consistency and high availability to online customers. KEMP Technologies provides load balancing software and SSL acceleration appliances that fit the needs of small and medium sized business (SMB) without requiring a fully-staffed IT department to decipher overly sophisticated and complicated software.
Application delivery solutions are known as application delivery controllers (ADC), server load balancers (SLB), application front-end devices (AFE), web switches, content switches and application switches.