What is meant by acceleration servers?

[voyageoflife]

what is meant by acceleration servers?
what are they meant for?
where do we use them?
what are their advantages over normal servers?
any links for further reading??

 

[Abo Saker]

acceleration servers

Try this link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Security_and_Acceleration_Server

Regards,

 

[faghani]

Re: acceleration servers

is a stateful packet and application layer inspection firewall, virtual private network and web cache (both forward caching and reverse caching) server which runs on Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. ISA Server 2004 introduces multi-networking support, integrated virtual private networking configuration, extensible user and authentication models, and improved management features. ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition includes array support, integrated Network Load Balancing (NLB), and Cache Array Routing Protocol (CARP). One of the core capabilities of ISA Server 2004 is its ability to securely publish Web servers. For example, some organizations use ISA Server 2004 to publish their Exchange services (e.g., OWA, RPC over HTTP, ActiveSync, OMA). ISA Server can be used to pre-authenticate clients in the DMZ so that only authenticated traffic reaches the internal servers.

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 is available in two editions, Standard and Enterprise. Enterprise Edition contains features enabling policies to be configured on an array level, rather than on individual ISA Servers, and load-balancing across multiple ISA Servers. Each edition of ISA Server is licensed per processor (the version included in Windows Small Business Server 2000/3 Premium includes licensing for 2 processors), and requires Windows Server 2003 Standard or Enterprise Edition server on which to run. Appliance hardware containing Windows 2003 Appliance Edition and ISA Server Standard Edition is available from third parties, including Celestix and Network Engines