The Alteon integrated Service Director (iSD) is an innovative service delivery platform designed to provide a variety of value-added traffic management applications that further extend the performance, scalability and flexibility of advanced Content Switching infrastructures. The Nortel Networks' Alteon iSD SSL Accelerator intelligently accelerates secure business transactions by offloading Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) processing from local servers without imposing delays on other traffic in the same data path. The SSL Accelerator also simplifies the way to deploy and maintain a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), enabling business critical electronic transactions. Purpose-built to perform processing tasks with long duty-cycles that would otherwise bog down network performance, the SSL Accelerator seamlessly integrates with Alteon Content Switches to offer the best of Content Switching and IP appliance technologies.
