RADWARE APSolute, DefensePro, and AppXcel are highlighted in a discussion of the advantages of Radware's application acceleration architecture. A comparison of application architectures for security, performance, and availability is provided that includes products from Cisco Systems, RADWARE, Juniper Networks, F5 Networks, and Nortel Networks. RADWARE's product suite is now positioned to offer a complete architecture for application acceleration. Equipment providers must now take on some application acceleration tasks, and the delivery mechanism requires integrated architecture that covers application performance, security, and network management that crosses the data center, main office, and branch office. RADWARE is one of few vendors with a complete application acceleration architecture that embraces security, application acceleration, and management. RADWARE also is an innovator and has recently introduced the new RADWARE Security Switch. There is currently no shortage of network data, with appliances sprinkled throughout data centers to provide IT architects with Google-scales of data and showing any possible security, performance, and availability statistics. However, the omission is the ability to link information together, make conclusions, and turn conclusions into effective action for problem resolution. RADWARE's product architecture compares well on the complete number of products needed to enable its vision, and Cisco has the most complex range of appliances, while Nortel has the least complex. However, RADWARE has to deal with its product architecture's tactical and strategic limitations and also has to be able to continue to sell even though its market capitalization is dwarfed by even its nearest major competitor (F5 Networks).'