NetEx launches high availability option for fastest WAN IP data transfer accelerator

NetEx has announced that its latest release of HyperIP includes support for an optional new high availability feature designed to meet demanding data centre requirements for redundancy. Automatic Hot-Standby (AHS), based on an implementation of the standard Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), provides a fully redundant failover capability when two HyperIP appliances are configured as hot standby pairs. AHS also supports partial and non-redundant HyperIP configurations.

NetEx CEO Craig Gust noted, "Full data protection through high availability is an important addition to our HyperIP product for many enterprises with multiple data centres connected by IP WANs. HyperIP 3.0 provides even greater resiliency for mission critical applications that require an easy-to-implement, application-transparent business continuity capability."

Added Gust, "HyperIP alleviates TCP/IP degradation associated with longer (200-plus miles) transmissions and eliminates TCP/IP throughput and latency performance issues. The product also shields applications from network variations, such as jitter and bit errors and efficiently compresses traffic which reduces operating costs associated expensive bandwidth used with applications such as storage networking."

HyperIP is a simple appliance that attaches to existing network infrastructures via standard 100MB or GigE interfaces and can be easily configured via a browser interface and requires no changes to servers, applications or network devices. In the optional AHS configuration, two HyperIP appliances on the same side of the network serve "master" and "backup" roles. In a failover event, the backup appliance becomes the new master. When the failing appliance recovers, it assumes the role of backup.

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•Date: 5th February 2004 •Region: N.America/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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