Network Load Balancer

Multilayered Application Delivery Controller. Complete Application Delivery Controller solution with the ability to behave as a load balancer and highly available service at different layers (L2, L3, L4, and L7).

64 bits support. Ready for 64 bits platforms in order to provide better performance and a more robust environment. It permits to assign more resources in terms of memory and performance than other architectures, optimized for multi-core CPUs in order to enjoy a 100% 64 bits system.

SKUDONET Enterprise Edition v6.0. Latest SKUDONET stable version with Enterprise Edition performance, features, security, and usability improvements. Check out the features tab for further information.

Responsive web GUI. Web graphic user interfaces with improved usability, accessibility and responsive view to be used in different devices.

Rest Json API v2. Load balancing automation is possible with a REST JSON API to view, create, delete and modify resources in the load balancer: farms, backends, farm guardian, statistics, network interfaces and more.

Limitless system. The SNA series are not limited in CPU usage, CPU cores, maximum bandwidth, number of farms, or backends. You get the full features and the maximum settings from the system with every product! Use all the resources available without restrictions in terms of the number of cores, memory used, throughput, or other system parameters.

Open hardware optimization. Reliable and fully optimized Flexi-hardware for high-performance networks, services, and applications.

Free of Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities.

Technical features provided:

•  Load Balancing and high availability in layers 2, 3, 4 and 7 for WAN uplinks, services, applications and data centers.
•  Support of protocols tcp, udp, sctp, sip, ftp, tftp, http, https, rdp, ssh, pop3, imap, smtp, dns, ntp, ldap, ldaps, radius, etc and applications MS Exchange, Lynx, Citrix, and more…
•  Advanced HTTP application features like session persistence, redirections, virtual hosts, on the fly decryption/encryption, SSL certificates (SNI and wildcard), cookie insertion, reverse proxy, among others.
•  Advanced health checks of servers and services.
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•  Traffic scalability and distribution by weight, round robin, cpu load, memory, least connections, least response, etc.
•  Configuration backups to allow quick disaster recovery procedures.
•  Active-passive cluster service.
•  Load balancing services monitoring through SNMP, RRD graphs and email notifications.
•  Advanced network management: VLANs, virtual IPs, link aggregation, static routing and IPv6.
•  Support of dNAT (transparency) and sNAT topologies.
•  Automation support through REST+JSON API.
•  Ready for A+ in SSL Labs and PCI compliance.
•  Intrusion prevention and detection service (IPS+IDS).
•  Optimized 64 bits operating system ready for massive scalable systems.

Minimum requirements to install the Mid-size Network Appliance are:

•  Rack space to install the hardware appliance.
•  SKUDONET firmware already included, follow the quick setup guide to access to the appliance the first time.

The software included in the Mid-size SNA Enterprise Edition is delivered under the terms of GNU Affero General Public License v3.

The SNA products licensing model is related and associated with the number of nodes, so it’s needed as many appliances as nodes required. Resources like CPU, memory, or throughput allocated per node are not relevant to the licensing model.

If a single node is required, only it’s needed to acquire one appliance license. If a cluster LB service is required, two appliance licenses are needed.

How does the evaluation work?

The evaluation of this product is free of charge and it allows to deploy, create, and use the real product for one month by default. Extensions of this period could be requested to the Sales Team through the contact form. During the evaluation period, pre-sales support is available.

Once the decision of purchase is made, it’ll be enough to issue a definitive activation certificate without the need for deploying the appliance again.

How to migrate from Community to Enterprise edition?

In order to migrate from Community to Enterprise Edition, it is required to redeploy the appliance, since the operating system is optimized for networking operations, and then a configuration migration process needs to be applied. Our technical team will assist to automate this migration from Community to Enterprise when required.

How many licenses do you need to build a cluster?

In order to build a cluster and obtain HA, it’s needed to acquire two licenses.

SKUDONET cluster is a stateful cluster which means that once the primary node is detected as down, the second one takes the control but the clients don’t experience any disruption. In order to achieve that, the second node is constantly synchronizing configurations, automatic processes, connections, user sessions, etc. So both nodes require to be online at every moment. That also permits that the switch between nodes is quite fast.

Is support included with the appliance?

The support service is not included with the appliance and it should be acquired a part of the product in order to get updates, security advisories and patches, hotfixes, development proposals, and assistance from our specialized Support Team. We can provide three different support plans for every application requirement, from Subscription to 24×7 support services.