Load Balancing Solution Adds WAP and Storage Appliance Support

Coyote Point Systems' upgraded load-balancing appliance enters the wireless arena.

 

by Wayne Kawamoto [November 2, 2000]

Coyote Point Systems recently announced a UDP-enabled upgrade of Equalizer, the company's load balancing appliance, due to ship on November 15th.

According to Coyote, Equalizer 5.0 will provide failover and high-availability for WAP devices and network-attached storage devices.

Coyote Point is partnering with wireless hardware and software vendor Infinite Technologies to develop a WAP server clustering solution, and with server-less storage software vendor CrosStor (just acquired by EMC Corporation) to develop high availability functions for network-attached storage devices.

Coyote says that the Equalizer 5.0 will also feature a revamped user interface, which may make the produce easier to use.

"In the past three years, load balancing has been a major factor in ISPs' ability to set new performance standards even as Web traffic increased geometrically," said Bill Kish, Coyote Point's CTO. "In the next five years, as tens of millions of people are introduced to the Web through wireless devices, Coyote Point will be blazing the high availability trail."

Pricing
The Equalizer 250, available for $3,995, balances up to 64 virtual clusters of eight servers each, handles up to 64,000 simultaneous active connections and is targeted at sites with T1 bandwidth.

Equalizer 350, priced at $5,995, balances an unlimited number of 16-server virtual clusters, handles up to 2 million simultaneous active connections and is targeted at sites with T3 bandwidth.

Equalizer 450, priced at $9,995, balances an unlimited number of 64-server clusters at up to 100 Mb/s and handles up to 4 million simultaneous active connections.

Equalizer 550, enabling bandwidth at up to 1,000,000 megabits, will be priced at $14,995.

In December, Coyote Point plans to offer a gigabit interface option on a new high-end model, Equalizer 550, which should enable bandwidth at up to 1,000,000 megabits.

Availability
The Equalizer will be available on November 15th.

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