Abstract

Redline Networks, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate its T|X 2100 Real-Time acceleration Appliance, a purpose-built device that intercepts HTTP requests from browser-based clients before they reach a Web server and that accelerates Web page downloads by using a blend of compression, multiplexing of client request over persistent HTTP connections and TCP processing offload to speed server response times.

Test Highlights:

Speeds delivery of webpages by up to 11X

Accelerates connection time to a web server from 1.4X to 18X

Increases Web server capacity for error-free transmission by up to 20X on a Sun Enterprise 450 Web server running Apache

Doubles the number of error-free connections per second supported by a Dell PowerApp.web-120 Web server running Microsoft Internet Information Server 5.0.

Note: Redline Networks was founded in 2000 and was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2005. The products based on Redline technology were discontinued in early 2008 failing to compete against Citrix NetScaler and F5.