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AXL300 accelerator PCI card

 

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Overview

The AXL300 Accelerator PCI Card is a 33-Mhz, 32-bit device designed for ProLiant servers operating Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4. The AXL300 overcomes the performance bottleneck customers see in SSL-secured web application servers. It adds a dedicated coprocessor to a ProLiant Server, offloading cycle-consuming cryptographic processing. The AXL300 supports more than 330 SSL connections per second with standard web servers such as Microsoft IIS and Netscape 3.5 or later.

The AXL300 is enabled with Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) to further improve performance to more than 660 SSL connections per second with CRT-enabled applications. It is also enabled with MultiPrime™, a patented technology from HP/Atalla that increases the performance of public key cryptography on both server and client platforms and on resource-constrained devices such as web phones and PDA's. Up to eight cards in a single server provide linear, scalable performance. The AXL300 is designed for fast and easy installation and use on ProLiant Servers and is supported by IM (Insight Manager). The AXL300 is easily exported worldwide wherever ProLiants are sold.

Ideal environment

The HP AXL300 Accelerator PCI Card is designed for ProLiant server customers worldwide, who are taking advantage of the dynamic economics of e-Commerce over the Internet, and:
  • Must solve the SSL server performance bottleneck
  • Uses a major web server such as Microsoft IIS and Netscape Enterprise 3.5 or later.
  • Wants a financially justified solution
  • Wants an easy installation in less than 30 minutes

e-Retailer

Problems and Requirements

  • Revenues from e-retailing are growing at 300 percent CAGR
  • Each new Holiday season creates a new plateau of secure transaction volume
  • Andersen Consulting says that more than 27 percent of e-customers walked away from purchase decisions
  • Plan for the next peak or risk customers surfing to other e-commerce sites
  • Loss of potential sales hurts the VP of Sales in charge of total company revenue
  • CIO tasked with making e-Commerce successful within a budget
  • Many e-Retailers know they have an SSL performance problem but can't stop the business

Typical Use

  • Easy installation into ProLiant servers without changing network topology
  • Industry-leading low entry price and price performance
  • Easily cost-justified by the opportunity costs of lost sales from customers leaving e-commerce site

Online Banking/Online Trading/Airlines Reservations

Problems and Requirements

  • Greatly reduce operational costs if they satisfy customer needs online
  • Bank example -transaction at teller window costs $1.25, at ATM it costs 27cents, but only two cents if done by the customer over the Internet
  • Growing secure transaction volumes hurt customer satisfaction
  • Know their business and their customers well and plan ahead accordingly
  • Customer contacts are the IT Director or his Operations Manager
  • Will perform comprehensive research on SSL acceleration

Typical Use

  • Evaluation card to demonstrate cost-effectiveness and ease of use
  • Linear scaling of performance with multiple cards may be needed for ultra high volumes

ASPs & ISPs

Problems and Requirements

  • If ISP/ASP owns equipment:
    • Must maintain client service level requirements
    • Very interested in reducing operating costs
  • If client owns equipment:
    • ISP/ASP wants to add value in consultant role

Typical Use

  • Quick and easy deployment in existing web servers
  • Lowest entry price and best price performance in the industry

Model comparison

Accelerator PCI Card
AXL200 - retired
AXL300
Exponentiation Engines Twenty-four, relatively slow Two, extremely fast
Performance Increases SSL transaction throughput Increases SSL transaction throughput
Reduces transaction response time
Performance/
second
over 200 SSL connects with a standard web server over 330 SSL connects with a standard web server
Price/performance $11 per SSL connect/second $3 per SSL connect/second
Web server support Microsoft IIS 5.0
Netscape Enterprise Server 3.5, 3.6
Apache via OpenSSL 0.9.5 or later
Novell NICI 1.5.4
Microsoft IIS
Netscape Enterprise Server 3.5, 3.6
iPlanet
Operating System support Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft NT4
Tru64 UNIX 4.0F
Windows 2000
Windows NT 4
Stand-alone diagnostics provided provided-- supports Insight Manager
Supported via HP/Atalla Atalla Security Products Group standard HP Services Organization
Designed   Product designed by HP to specifically work with ProLiant Servers
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