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Sarvega XML Context Router Enables Web Services Over WANs

Sarvega Inc, a provider of high-performance XML networking solutions, announced the Sarvega XML Context Router, the first product to enable loosely coupled multi-point XML Web Services across wide area networks (WANs). The Sarvega XML Context Router is the first XML appliance to route XML content at wire speed based on deep content inspection, supporting publish-subscribe (pub-sub) models while simultaneously providing secure and reliable delivery guarantees.

Until now, Web Services deployments have been limited to point-to-point application integration as a replacement to legacy integration mechanisms. Most sophisticated environments, however, require high-performance secure event-driven asynchronous exchange of information between publishers and subscribers.

Today's XML solutions are characterized by an inability to deliver XML messaging with the required scalability, reliability, content-level security, performance and flow-control. Additionally, the emergence of Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) has greatly heightened the need for XML- based Wide Area Messaging infrastructures, as SOAs are not viable without support for core messaging capabilities across network boundaries.

With Sarvega XML Context Routers, users can create complete overlay XML mesh networks, as the XML Context Router is the first product that provides secure, end-to-end reliable delivery of asynchronous messaging for web services within and outside of the enterprise. It also delivers the industry's first Gigabit performance for XPath-based routing driven by XML routing tables based on support for both XPath 1.0 and XPath 2.0 and, in future, XQuery standards.

"As Web Services traffic grows, XML routers, as a new category of intermediary devices, will become essential components in most enterprise and carrier networks," said James Kobielus, senior analyst at Burton Group, an IT research and consulting firm. "XML routers complement lower-layer traffic-management devices such as IP routers and network load balancers. The principal value-added from XML routers is their ability to reliably and securely route XML traffic over the wide area and perform policy-driven, fine-grained inspection, filtering, and transformation of SOAP message headers and contents."

The unique networking capabilities provided by Sarvega's XML Context Routers enable users to deliver new, sophisticated Web Services. For example, carriers can now offer customers high-performance, secure premium services over XML Value Added Networks (VANs) with content-level security, Quality of Service (QoS) and delivery guarantees. Large enterprises can cut costs by replacing multiple point-to-point networks and replacing them with dynamic extranets: value-added semi-private networks in which XML Web Services are routed securely and reliably to multiple subscribing applications at wire-speed. For example, financial services organizations can use the XML Context Router to leverage XML web services to accurately route FIXML and create new, revenue generating services. It is also well suited for government applications, which can deploy networks that provide rapid delivery of large amounts of data to multiple subscribers using the pub-sub model.

The Sarvega XML Context Router is currently in trials with carrier and government customers and will be commercially available in the fall. Additionally, Sarvega will offer PCI/PCI-X cards with Gigabit-level performance in the fall.

"Sarvega's vision has always been to develop high performance, dynamic XML-based networks. Now, with our XML Context Router, Sarvega is delivering a product that allows customers to deploy a full mesh XML overlay network, complementing and enhancing the value of their existing IP infrastructure. Our XML routers dynamically deliver intelligent, reliable wire-speed XML content for sophisticated Web Services," said Christopher Darby, president and CEO of Sarvega.

To simplify configuration, deployment and management of XML Context Router networks, Sarvega's Context Console provides a "configure once, deploy anywhere" capability for the router, as well as all of Sarvega's XML appliances. With a simple wizards-based interface, the Context Console simplifies and centralizes the task of configuration, deployment, and management of large-scale, distributed deployments of Sarvega XML Context Routers.

"Sarvega continues to extend its leadership in addressing XML Web Services challenges through our XML Networking solutions for mission critical deployments. Sarvega's XML Context Routers, along with Sarvega's XML Speedway and XML Guardian solutions can, for the first time, offer wire-speed end-to-end secure reliable asynchronous messaging capabilities - a capability without which the vision of standards-based Service Oriented Architectures is not possible," said Girish Juneja, co-founder and senior vice president of product management.