Celestix Networks - We Secure Microsoft NetworksCelestix XLB Traffic Manager Series (XLB)

Comprehensive application acceleration, load balancer, and web security

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

Models:

Celestix XLB 4000 Series

XLB 4000 Series

Celestix designed XBL 4000 appliances for maximum 2,500 throughput (0.5 Gpbs and 1.0 Gpbs - 4 IP for Load Balancer only).
  • XLB 4000 Load Balancer Base Unit.
  • XLB 4000 Traffic Manager Base Unit.
Celestix XLB 5000 Series

XLB 5000 Series

Celestix designed XBL 5000 appliances for maximum 5,000 throughput (1.0 Gpbs).
  • XLB 5000 Load Balancer Base Unit.
  • XLB 5000 Traffic Manager Base Unit.
Celestix XLB 6000 Series

XLB 6000 Series

Celestix XBL 6000 is a high-reliability security system intended for mission critical applications in large enterprises. Celestix designed XBL 6000 appliances for maximum 50,000 throughput (2.0 Gpbs). Celestix packaged XBL 6000 security appliances in a 19” 2U chassis with redundant dual power supplies and a RAID 1 disk array. All disks, power supplies and fans are hot-swappable with built in redundancy.
  • XLB 6000 Load Balancer Base Unit.
  • XLB 6000 Traffic Manager Base Unit.
Celestix XLB 8000 Series

XLB 8000 Series

XBL 8000 is Celestix high-performance appliance. Celestix designed XBL 8000 appliances for maximum unlimited throughput. The WSA 8200 is a high availability 2U appliance with a four-disk RAID 5EE array, dual power supplies and hot-swappable disks, and fans.
  • XLB 8000 Load Balancer Base Unit.
  • XLB 8000 Traffic Manager Base Unit.


Compare Models:

  XLB 4000 Series XLB 5000 Series XLB 6000 Series XLB 8000 Series
XLB Model: XLB 4000 Series XLB 5000 Series XLB 6000 Series XLB 8000 Series
Max. Throughput Load Balancer: 5,000 TPS
1.0 Gpbs (4 IP only)
Traffic Manager: 2,500 TPS 500 mbps		 5,000 TPS
1.0 Gbps 		 50,000 TPS
2.0 Gbps		 Unlimited
Chassis Height 1U 1U 2U 2U
Redundant AC Power No - Not Available No - Not Available Yes - Standard with base unit Yes - Standard with base unit
Hot Swappable Hard Drive No - Not Available No - Not Available Yes - Standard with base unit Yes - Standard with base unit
Number of Processors 2 4 4 8
Memory 4 GB 4 GB 4 GB 8 GB
Hard Drive SATA-II 120 GB Available Storage
(2 x 160 GB Hard Drive)		 SATA-II 300 GB Available Storage
(1 x 320 GB Hard Drive)		 SATA-II 300 GB Available Storage
(2 x 320 GB Hard Drive)		 SATA-II 300 GB Available Storage
(4 x 160 GB Hard Drive)
Disk Mirror RAID RAID 1 - RAID 1 RAID 5EE
Gigabit Ethernet Ports 6 8 (with 2 x 10 Gbe ports)
Dimensions 1.75" x 1.75" x 12.25" 3.5" x 17.5" x 17.5" 3.5" x 17.5" x 22.5"


Celestix XLB Traffic Manager and Load Balancer Comparison:

Licensing Edition: XLB Load Balancer XLB Traffic Manager
Active/active and active/passives Yes - Standard with base unit Yes - Standard with base unit
TrafficCluster™size 2 active units 64 active units
Application cluster size Unlimited Unlimited
Supported protocols All TCP and UDP protocols; IPv4 and IPv6; HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP, FTP, SMTP, SIP, RTSP, DNS, custom, etc.
Layer-7 load balancing Yes - Standard with base unit Yes - Standard with base unit
Session persistence Yes - Standard with base unit Yes - Standard with base unit
SSL decryption and encryption Yes - Standard with base unit Yes - Standard with base unit
Application acceleration Yes - Standard with base unit Yes - Standard with base unit
Service protection Yes - Standard with base unit Yes - Standard with base unit
Application health monitoring Yes - Standard with base unit Yes - Standard with base unit
SOAP control API Yes - Standard with base unit Yes - Standard with base unit
Command line interface Yes - Standard with base unit Yes - Standard with base unit
Traffic management rules RuleBuilder™ rules RuleBuilder™ & TrafficScript™ rules;
JavaTM Extensions
Entire request and response control No - Not Available Yes - Standard with base unit
Rate shaping No - Not Available Yes - Standard with base unit
XML processing No - Not Available Yes - Standard with base unit
Content caching No - Not Available Option
Bandwidth management No - Not Available Option
Service level monitoring No - Not Available Option
Application Firewall Module No - Not Available Option