ARA - Web Cache Solution

ARA Networks Jaguar 5000 (Web Cache)


NetXcel being nominated as ARA Networks Asia Pacific Partner is proud to present JAGUAR5000 during Communicasia 2009. JAGUAR5000 is the premium web cache appliance for improving the high traffic service quality. It accelerates web service with high performance, enables powerful multimedia content service, and even improves service quality of secured sites.

As multimedia content is widely used, it becomes the bottleneck of the web latency. Their size is very large and it caused to overuse the bandwidth of content provider. Jaguar-5000 will solve this problem, providing high quality multimedia content caching.

Jaguar-5000 well suited for large files service, such as FLV (Flash Video) multimedia, is based on ARA Cache Operating System. It supports wide range of hardware, supports various and up-to-date hardware, like SMP, x86-64 and SAS. And it supports large memory up to 32G. This allows flexibility for any organization, including service providers.

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High Performance

The JAGUAR5000 and its 32GB memory operate without any degradation in performance even under heavy traffic scenarios incurred by the delivery of large multimedia files with large effective datasets.

The key features to achieve this performance are as below :

1 Innovative Kernel Engine based on MCT

JAGUAR5000's innovative kernel engine based on MCT (Minimum Context Thread system) was to create a thread system that performs like a well-crafted asynchronous system enabling faster context switching and scheduling. MCT is already capable of handling a million sessions efficiently leading to significant improvements in performance. In addition, MCT speeds up processing by creating only one thread for the one CPU core, and guarantees improved scalable performance for a number of CPUcores.

2 WCOS (Web Cache Object Storage)

JAGUAR has an exclusive file system especially designed for web caching. It can solve disk bottlenecks by allowing parallel disk access and parallel processing. This file system improves the performance of the data and maximizes the RAM usage. In addition, it improves the transaction time of Disk I/O Memory IO by accelerating the throughput processing of web requests.

Capacity

JAGUAR5000 is unbeatable as the world leading web-cache solution with its large capacity of 64-bit engine.

1 64-bit Engine / 32GB Memory

JAGUAR supports a 64-bit operating kernel, which can utilize up to 32GB of memory. The larger the memory, the more objects can be cached. This leads to improved throughput and dramatically reduces response time. This high capacity directly affects the disk capacity for cache servers.

2 Terabytes Disk

As data centers grow and the traffic of large scale portals and shopping mall increase, large caching storage will be required. In addition, the popularity of multimedia sites creates additional performance latencies and bottlenecking due to large multimedia files being accesses and transferred. JAGUAR solves these problems by utilizing WCOS technology and allowing multimedia content to be processed and cached efficiently in terabytes disks.

3 A million of Concurrent Connections

JAGUAR can support sudden surges of over a million concurrent connections caused by extraordinary events.

Effective Management

JAGUAR offers advanced and effective management that can be accessed from anywhere on the network.

1 Management Environment

JAGUAR can be managed via Web GUI tool based on SSL/HTTPS protocol. The management tools can also be accessed remotely as long as there is a web-browser access. The GUI is designed to be user-friendly to administrator.

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2 Monitoring & Configuration

Real-time Monitoring, JAGUAR supports real-time status, performance data and event monitoring via SNMP Various Configurations, JAGUAR supports various configurations such as system, cache, protocol and authentication.

3 Integrated Management

From its user-friendly Web GUI, multiple clustered of Jaguar servers can be managed in one GUI

4 Traffic Logging

Real-time Traffic Logging, JAGUAR creates various log formats like Squid, Netscape and user defined formats. The logs are regularly delivered to specified servers.

Deployment Models

JAGUAR offers many options of deployment model, Proxy Cache, Reverse Proxy, Transparent Cache and Hidden Proxy Mode.

Transparent Cache model and Hidden Proxy Mode are the choice for most ISPs where user's browser setting is not necessary. All web traffics are redirected to cache server transparently by L4 switch or router

1 Bandwidth Saving

ISP's are eager to reduce network bandwidth to avoid high expenses. By installing JAGUAR throughout the network, an ISP can utilize web proxy accelerator to increase response time by decreasing network traffic and removing bottlenecks. As increase of subscribers, JAGUAR can provide relief to the network traffic resulting in improved quality of service.

2 Response Time Improvement

JAGUAR allows content to be pre-loaded to prevent delays in service caused by mismatched content. It also provides quick content delivery for large multimedia file like flash video. This will improve user experience and increase subscriber satisfaction to their service provider.


Further benefits, JAGUAR's has security enhancement to support its deployment model, which include content filtering, access control, authorization control and intelligent by-pass features.