Abstract

Tolly Group Report #202119 (April 2002) shows WinCom G-Series Switching Server greatly accelerates Web infrastructures by combining load balancing, hardware TCP/HTTP offload, direct storage delivery and integrated firewall functions.

Single-server upgrade. Replacing one conventional Web server with G-Series lifted throughput from 13.9 Mbit/s to 141.1 Mbit/s (5×), raised transactions from 2,449/s to 26,161/s (10.7×) and cut first-byte latency 91% from 24 ms to 2 ms.

Five-server scale-out. With five Web servers behind G-Series the site handled 7,250 users, 232.5 Mbit/s and 6,427 transactions/s, delivering pages 91% faster than a linear five-server projection.

Optimized mix under attack. Configuring three Web servers plus two NFS storage nodes and launching a 100,000-SYN/s DoS still produced 461.5 Mbit/s, 12,691 transactions/s, 14,500 users and 0.31 s first-byte time with no degradation.

Layer 7 load balancing capacity. Using only two of eight Gigabit ports the appliance sustained 700 Mbit/s, balanced more than 30,000 HTTP requests/s and held 57,000 concurrent connections.

Bottom line: G-Series delivers up to 8× throughput, 7.3× transaction rate, 91% lower response time and maintains full performance during large DoS floods, letting organizations boost Web capacity and security with a single hardware device.