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Introduction 

1.1 Introducing 

ZXTM 

Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager is a high availability, application centric 

traffic management and load balancing product. It provides control, 

intelligence, security and resilience for all your application traffic. ZXTM 

is intended for organisations hosting valuable business critical services, 

such as TCP and UDP based services like HTTP (web) and media delivery, 

and XML  based services such as Web Services. 

ZXTM s unique process architecture ensures it can handle large volumes 

of network traffic efficiently. Its TrafficCluster

TM

 scalability allows you to 

add more front end traffic managers or back end servers to your cluster 

as the need arises. The cluster size is unlimited, and the performance of 

ZXTM grows in line with the performance of the hardware. 

Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager is a highly capable solution which can 

also be adapted and extended as new requirements arise. Using the 

TrafficScript language you can write sophisticated, tailored traffic 

management rules to inspect, transform, manage and route requests and 

responses. TrafficScript rules can manage connections in any TCP or 

UDP based protocol. 

ZXTM is secure out of the box, and is hardened against intrusion and 

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. It incorporates the fastest and strongest 

SSL encryption technologies, and can efficiently decrypt and encrypt 

large numbers of SSL connections. TrafficScript rules, security policies 

and other content based calculations can be applied to the encrypted 

request while retaining full end to end security. 

For critical, high availability solutions, ZXTM offers TrafficCluster

TM

redundancy. This allows you to have unlimited numbers of active and 

standby front end servers. If one of your active machines fails, ZXTM 

automatically brings a standby server into action; in the case of 

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