Radware, the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, announced that China Eastern, one of the leading Chinese airlines, has successfully deployed Radware's APSolute application delivery controller (ADC) solution combining AppXcel, LinkProof, and SecureFlow with Radware's application & network security product, DefensePro to optimize the e-commerce and web applications at the core of its mission-critical business applications.

China Eastern has used Radware's complete ADC solution to build its next-generation network infrastructure to effectively resolve network access delays and IS problems. As such, it has increased user access response rates and enhanced the monitoring, control and management of its entire e-commerce system. This has enabled China Eastern to provide more efficient services to its passengers and meet challenges presented by the organization of the Olympic Games.

With steady economic growth in China, an upsurge of the tourism industry on the mainland and the upcoming Olympic Games, China Eastern has been facing tremendous pressure to handle an unprecedented volume of network access. The airline had an urgent need to upgrade its network to increase the utilization of multiple Internet links and enable a fast response-rate for different ISP users without affecting the operation and stability of the existing intranet, extranet, Internet and wireless local area networks. At the same time, the airline also needed to implement an effective protection mechanism against DoS/DDoS attacks to ensure high availability, performance and security network access for all business-critical applications throughout the Olympic Games and holiday season.

To address these needs, China Eastern turned to Radware, who proposed and deployed a total ADC solution inclusive of its LinkProof, SecureFlow, AppXcel and DefensePro products.

• LinkProof, not only provides availability of the Internet at all times and optimizes the use of these links but also enables intelligent load balancing between ISPs without the need to coordinate between them. LinkProof selects the best ISP link that will give China Eastern customers the fastest access to data across the Internet;

• SecureFlow, uses granular application intelligence to optimize the performance of best-of-breed content inspection, anti-virus, VPN, IDS and firewall security tools. Its unified, scalable, switch architecture ensures 24/7 security policy enforcement, high availability, fast response time and transparent, cost-effective scaling of the full range of data center security devices at China Eastern;

• AppXcel boosts application response times for the airline's end users through a comprehensive set of acceleration technologies including compression, caching, HTTP multiplexing, TCP optimization and more;

• Radware's award-winning DefensePro protects from external intrusion, scans in high-speed, in-depth and real-time application traffic, protecting and preventing China Eastern's website from threats and attacks.

"Through the deployment of Radware's high performance and all-around business-smart networking solution, we have promptly improved the performance of our networking system," said Mr. Dong Ming, of the Information Technology Management Department at China Eastern. "By ensuring the high availability, stability and security of our Internet links, this new system provides our passengers with a more stable, quick and timely transaction service. The real-time protection used against DoS /DDoS attacks also ensures the security of our business-critical system and safeguards our investment," he added.

"We offered a complete solution, leveraging our industry-leading real-time monitoring technology, always-available solutions, business-critical acceleration capability and real-time protection against intrusions and DoS/DDoS attacks," said Mr. Zhao Jun, General Manager of North China Region of Radware. "This has enabled us to create a new business model for users in the aviation industry, enabling them to easily manage their ever evolving needs."