XML Appliance Overview

Layer 7 Technologies is the first XML security and networking vendor to introduce a suite of XML appliances and gateway software for Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Web Oriented Architectures (WOA) including SOAP, POX, AJAX and REST. The SecureSpan family of XML appliances and software help secure, simplify and scale Web services.

All SecureSpan XML appliances are based on a high performance 64-bit multi-processor, multi-processor architecture with onboard XML acceleration ASIC. All SecureSpan appliances offer full clustered redundancy and linear scalability.

SecureSpan™ XML Accelerator

Speed XML Processing, Validation and Transformation

Remove performance and latency bottlenecks in XML processing with the first XML Accelerator to combine 64-bit architecture with hardware XML and SSL acceleration. Like all the SecureSpan XML Appliances the SecureSpan Accelerator can be deployed in a datacenter, inline to an XML stream or as a co-processor to an ESB.

SecureSpan™ XML Data Screen

Cleanse XML of Exploits, Malformed Data and Restricted

Protect your Web services investment by guarding against attack and damage without compromising performance. Control what content reaches your applications or is returned to outside partners. The XML Data Screen is available as a dedicated appliance or as a software upgrade to the XML Accelerator.

SecureSpan™ XML Firewall and VPN

Secure Your SOA, Share Your SOA

Complete SOA security requires XML threat protection plus advanced identity and message level security. The SecureSpan XML Firewall with optional VPN is the most comprehensive SOA security solution on the market combining the benefits of the XML Accelerator and Data Screen with innovations in identity and policy to address both internal, portal and B2B SOA security challenges.

SecureSpan™ XML Networking Gateway

Policy Based Service Mediation and Application Oriented Networking

Enforce advanced routing, translation, virtualization and SLA policies across transports and protocols. Building upon the features of the SecureSpan Accelerator, Data Screen and Firewall, the SecureSpan Networking Gateway provides users a total platform for securing, simplifying and scaling SOA and Web 2.0.