The SSL protocol performs computation-intensive calculations for each user session. Processing secure transactions is especially unforgiving on server processors. Recent studies revealed that Web servers take significant performance hits when handling SSL traffic – some operating at only 7 percent of normal capacity. These results translate into instances when more than 90 percent of Web users are turned away because servers cannot process connections fast enough.

Solution: While implementing SSL Cards, SSL Terminators (stand-alone devices dedicated to managing SSL transactions) and/or Server Load Balancers which include SSL decryption can provide some improvement in transaction capacity; these solutions introduce additional points of management and failure as well as increased cost of ownership.

With PipeBoost™, sites can significantly increase the capacity and accelerate the response time of both web servers and SSL terminators. PipeBoost™ can increase the number of secure transactions a site can process by 20 to 130%, making your site's secure content faster and more scalable than ever before.

PipeBoost™ Solution: PipeBoost offers an answer to SSL load problem. Instead of increasing site computing capacity by upgrading/adding more computing power (be that Server CPU’s, SSL cards, SSL Terminators, SLB with SSL), we optimize the process of page serving, by compressing content before it is encrypted and sent to it’s final destination.

The whole idea behind data compression is to take a string of data and make it smaller.

PipeBoost™ compresses static and dynamic pages prior to the SSL encryption, therefore the resulting size of data that needs to be encrypted is reduced by up to 10 times. Due to the fact that GZIP/Deflate compression algorithms are less CPU intensive then SSL encryption algorithm, sites realize immediate cost savings and site(s) transaction capacity increase. 

Benefits

• Increase profitability and scalability of the business by increasing the capacity to serve pages and support SSL transactions on your current infrastructure
• Decrease operating expenses by reducing the amount of bandwidth necessary to serve static, dynamic, or secure content
• Accelerate download times and SSL transaction times so users browse, shop, and buy from your site faster and more easily

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