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XLM Accelerator

Speed XML Processing, Validation and Transformation

The SecureSpan™ XML Accelerator offloads extremely processor-intensive XML parsing, validation and transformation operations from application servers, database servers and Enterprise Service Buses (ESB). The XML Accelerator appliance is specifically designed to accelerate XML message throughput and reduce the latency associated with processing all common XML message formats including POX, SOAP, REST and AJAX.

The SecureSpan XML Accelerator can be configured to validate XML documents against an acceptable predefined schema, probe XML data for specific content or values and transform documents from one version to another. Control over message processing operations is through intuitive SecureSpan policies, which provide visual tools to navigate XML structures and quickly define message queries or transforms. Messages can be examined for specific content or context and routed to specific endpoints or returned to requestors after processing. All complex XML message processing is performed in onboard ASIC-based hardware accelerators to maximize message throughput and minimize processing latency.

The SecureSpan XML Accelerator is available as a linearly scalable, high performance 64-bit, multi-processor, 1U appliance with onboard XML and SSL acceleration. Deployment options include acting as an XML co-processor for a network of XML applications in a data center or as XML offload for an ESB. All operations on the SecureSpan XML Accelerator can be configured independently for inbound and outbound traffic.

To future proof customers against changing requirements, the SecureSpan XML Accelerator is software upgradeable to the SecureSpan XML Data Screen, XML Firewall and VPN or XML Networking Gateway.

• Accelerated XML message processing offload
• Accelerated document transformation and concatenation
• Accelerated XML data validation
• Message versioning between applications
• ESB co-processing

• First 64-bit architecture with onboard XML and SSL acceleration
• Policy based message and content handling
• Operates in both in-line and ESB co-processor configurations
• Built-in clustering support for scalability and high availability
• Future-proof through software upgrade to SecureSpan XML Data Screen, SecureSpan XML Firewall and VPN, or SecureSpan XML Networking Gateway