A high performance Application Delivery Platform


ZXTM (Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager) manages your application traffic, inspecting, transforming and routing requests as it load-balances them across the application infrastructure.

The powerful TrafficScript™ engine lets you implement whatever traffic management policies are most appropriate for your enterprise, drawing on the whole range of capabilities of ZXTM. Where necessary, Java™ Extensions can be used to implement additional, complex traffic transformations and other policies.

Capabilities and Benefits

Application Acceleration

Performance problems cost you money!!!

Even small changes in response times can have significant effects:

  • Google
    • 10-result page: 0.4 seconds load time
    • 30-result page: 0.9 seconds load time
      • decreased traffic and ad revenues by 20%
  • Google Maps
    • Home page reduced from 100KB to 70-80KB
      • Traffic went up 10% in week 1, 37% in weeks 2, 3, 4
  • Amazon.com
    • Every 100 ms increase in load time of Amazon.com decreased sales by 1%
  • Microsoft Live Search
    • When the search results pages were slowed by 1 second:
      • Queries per user declined by 1.0%; Ad clicks per user declined by 1.5%
    • When the search results pages were slowed by 2 seconds:
      • Queries per user declined by 2.5%; Ad clicks per user declined by 4.4%

By placing ZXTM in front of your networked and web-enabled applications, you can boost the number of transactions your infrastructure can handle, and dramatically increase the speed and responsiveness that your users experience.



ZXTM offloads compute-intensive tasks, and the integrated Content Caching reduces the load on your infrastructure. TCP offload, Traffic buffering, and HTTP optimizations produce the optimum environment for your applications to run at peak performance and capacity.


Service Reliability and Security

Active and Passive Health monitors and continual network performance monitoring ensures that client requests are load-balanced across the fastest servers in your infrastructure, ZXTM's TrafficCluster™ scalability protects against compound failures at all levels.

Total server isolation, request and response scrubbing, request validation and request rate shaping all protect your application infrastructure from direct attacks, invalid or malformed requests and malicious or incidental flash floods that would otherwise impair the level of service you provide.

ZXTM (Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager) is a key component of your security solution. It is secure out-of-the-box, hardened against intrusion and Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, and is designed from the outset with security in mind. Zeus’ outstanding security track record and the incorporation of the latest and strongest encryption technologies into Zeus products ensure peace of mind for both you and your customers.

  • Secure By Default
  • Service Protection
  • SSL Decryption and Re-encryption
  • FIPS-certified SSL and Key Management
  • Support for SNORT Intrusion Detection and Prevention rules

With ZXTM, you get the greatest possible confidence that your applications will be available for your users, whatever the circumstances.


Manage your traffic and infrastructure with ZXTM

ZXTM keeps you informed with detailed logs and status reports. Manage, transform and route traffic across multiple applications, and manage clusters of application servers to reduce your operational costs.

TrafficScript™, ZXTM's customization language, lets you define precisely the traffic management logic you require for each individual request. No longer are you stuck with one-size-fits-all traffic management logic. You've got the freedom to design and implement your application infrastructure as you wish, knowing that ZXTM can work with, adapt to and optimize whatever design suits you best.


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