nFast

SSL doesn’t come for free. It costs CPU power, server memory, IT administration and integration. Worse, these costs are a growing cascade as an increase in the number of CPUs equates to a direct increase in the number of software licenses required and the additional overhead of IT administration.

However, all of these costs can be paid for with an nFast SSL Acceleration or Offload card.

nFast SSL Offload Card

High performance PCI Cards that replace a server's Network Interface Card (NIC) to offload all SSL processing from the application. https ciphertext passing through the nFast's network interface is translated and provided in plaintext TCP/IP, providing a complete SSL subsystem for any IP-enabled application running on Windows, Solaris or Linux Operating Systems.

nFast SSL Accelerator

PCI Cards that accelerate SSL operations by processing the asymmetric (RSA) cryptography that can cause significant performance bottlenecks. These products handle only the most CPU-hungry SSL processing, requiring the application itself to be SSL-enabled in order to process the remaining SSL load. They are best-suited to environments where substitution of the NIC is not appropriate or where specialist Operating Systems such as AIX or HPUX are deployed.

Click to learn how SSL processing uses server CPU capacity and how it affects your applications