Zeus gets gold for performance

Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM) has received a Gold Award from Broadband-Testing, Europe's foremost independent network testing facility for broadband and network infrastructure products

Zeus Technology, the acknowledged leader in Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced that its Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM) product has received a Gold Award from Broadband-Testing, Europe's foremost independent network testing facility for broadband and network infrastructure products.

This new accolade follows in-depth testing of the ZXTM next-generation application traffic manager at the Broadband-Testing Laboratories in France, which evaluates broadband and network infrastructure products. Testing is based around real-world scenarios, real applications and real data to ensure it provides meaningful results to network managers.

ZXTM won high praise for its advanced, easy to use features, many of which are unique in the market. "ZXTM has extensive redundancy and resilience built in which exceeds the current standard for the market." commented Steve Broadhead, Founder, Broadband Testing." Near infinite redundancy and horizontal scalability is achieved through its innovative TrafficCluster feature, adding a new dimension in Layer 7 networking."

The ZXTM next-generation application-centric traffic manager combines three core areas of functionality into a single solution that intelligently manages, secures and optimizes complex application traffic. As well as enabling users to enhance their infrastructure in line with business needs, ZXTM ensures the highest levels of security, resilience and performance for web based applications, delivering swift and seamless interaction between web-enabled application services.

The report highlighted ZXTM's 'draining nodes' feature which allows the easy removal of servers from the active pool without disrupting user connections and the 'Diagnose' function which ensures that configuration is correct before deployment. Moreover, Broadband-Testing noted that these class-leading features were delivered at an extremely compelling price/performance point.

"Given its extremely high level of functionality, price/performance and sheer usability, we have no hesitation in placing ZXTM 3.0 with the very best in its class and have duly honored it with our Gold Award," continued Steve Broadhead. "We were particularly impressed that in our real-world tests ZXTM delivered performance that exceeded the capacity of our test equipment - demonstrating its unique capabilities when dealing with web traffic."

This latest success follows a major expansion of the ZXTM product family, with the addition of five new products to the original software solution. The ZXTM range now provide solutions for entry level load balancing as well as bandwidth and service level management. All are available either as software or as an all-in-one appliance.

Intelligent management of web traffic between business critical applications is vital for web-enabled organizations to improve their end users experience." said Paul di Leo, CEO, Zeus Technology. "We are delighted to receive this impressive accolade from Broadband-Testing as our outstanding real world performance in these tests shows that Zeus is leading the way in the development of innovative application traffic management software for web-enabled businesses."

The full Broadband-Testing report is available.

About Broadband-Testing

Broadband-Testing is Europe's foremost independent network testing facility and consultancy organization for broadband and network infrastructure products.

Based in the south of France, Broadband-Testing offers extensive labs, demo and conference facilities. From this base, Broadband-Testing provides a range of specialist IT, networking and development services to vendors and end-user organizations throughout Europe, SEAP and the United States.

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