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More ABCs of ADCs

In our last newsletter we began the discussion of the types of functionality provided by an Application Delivery Controller (ADC). We will continue that discussion in this newsletter by outlining some additional functionality provided by ADCs.

The role of ADCs

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is widely used to encrypt documents that are being sent over the Internet. Unfortunately the processing of the security mechanisms that are associated with SSL is computationally-intensive. As a result, a key function of an ADC is SSL offload. As part of SSL offload, the ADC terminates the SSL session and performs the computationally-intensive processing of the security mechanisms thus freeing up server resources.
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