PIOLINK (ˈpaɪ.əlɪŋk; Korean: 파이오링크) is a leading application networking company in Korea.

It manufactures and sells some application switches (as known as Application Delivery Controller

Application delivery controller

An application delivery controller is a network device in the datacenter that helps perform common tasks done by web sites in an effort to remove load from the web servers themselves. Many also provide load balancing. They usually sit between the firewall/router and the web farm. The ADC is in...

) and Web Application Firewall products modeled PAS and WEBFRONT series in providing solutions to help individuals and enterprises, assures the stability, scalability, speed, and security of the network system with load balancing

Load balancing (computing)

Load balancing is a computer networking methodology to distribute workload across multiple computers or a computer cluster, network links, central processing units, disk drives, or other resources, to achieve optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid...

, Quality of service

Quality of service

The quality of service refers to several related aspects of telephony and computer networks that allow the transport of traffic with special requirements...

 (QoS), firewall

Firewall (computing)

A firewall is a device or set of devices designed to permit or deny network transmissions based upon a set of rules and is frequently used to protect networks from unauthorized access while permitting legitimate communications to pass....

, and packet filtering functions. In addition, PIOLINK is making most of efforts to manufacture application switches through steady research and development, and continuously introduces variety of high-performance network equipment based on existing technology.

PIOLINK Application Switch

• L4 Server Load balancing
  Load balancing (computing)
  Load balancing is a computer networking methodology to distribute workload across multiple computers or a computer cluster, network links, central processing units, disk drives, or other resources, to achieve optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid...
  
   & Firewall
  Firewall (computing)
  A firewall is a device or set of devices designed to permit or deny network transmissions based upon a set of rules and is frequently used to protect networks from unauthorized access while permitting legitimate communications to pass....
  
  /VPN Load Balancing
• L7 Server Load Balancing
• SSL
  Transport Layer Security
  Transport Layer Security and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer , are cryptographic protocols that provide communication security over the Internet...
  
   Accelerator
• Connection Pooling
• L7 Security & QoS
• High Availability & Health Check
• Simplified Management System
• PIOLINK Security Manager: Content Filtering, Email Worm/Virus Filter, Intrusion Prevention, DoS/DDoS

PAS seires (High-end model base)

- Giga Port: 10/100/1000 BASE-TX 16port or 1000BASE-X SFP 16 port (Combo type)

- 10GbE SFP+ 4port

- Max Throughput: 8Gbps,

- Max concurrent sessions: 24,000K,

- Various load balancing(SLB, FW/VPNLB, CSLB, GWLB, IPS load balancing) & Redirection,

- IPv6

IPv6

Internet Protocol version 6 is a version of the Internet Protocol . It is designed to succeed the Internet Protocol version 4...

 support, QoS, TCP Offload, SSL Acc., Compression

Data compression

In computer science and information theory, data compression, source coding or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation would use....

, Caching

Cache

In computer engineering, a cache is a component that transparently stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster. The data that is stored within a cache might be values that have been computed earlier or duplicates of original values that are stored elsewhere...

Web Application Firewall

• Request validation
• Content protection
• Adaptive learning
• Cloaking

WEBFRONT series (High-end model base)

- Giga Port: 10/100/1000 BASE-TX 16port or 1000BASE-X SFP 16 port (Combo type)

- 10GbE SFP+ 4port

- 60,000 TPS / 4Gbps throughput / 2,000,000 Concurrent session

- OWASP TOP 10 perfect support / Unified web and network security functions

- Flexible and extendable configuration in complex environments

Recent developments

• Application Delivery Controller Ranked No.1 (Q4 ‘08, Q1 ‘09, IDC), PIOLINK has 30~40% share of market.
• Web Application Firewall Ranked No.1 in Telco/ISP, Education Area

• Recognized 'Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2008‘
• Recognized 'Red Herring 100 Asia Award 2008'
• Selected Korean World-class Product & Company Award 2007 by Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy Republic of Korea (2007)