Intel® SOA Expressway

Independent Testing Validation of our Security Gateway

Intel SOA Expressway offers the reliable and demonstrated performance that's required to power your SOA, Web Services and Cloud Security initiatives.

Specifically, independent information systems test automation provider PushToTest performed testing on Intel SOA Expressway for the scenario implementations below. This chart summarizes the best performance PushToTest observed on established hardware configurations for Scenarios 1, 2 and 3. Note the number of Transactions per Second (TPS) exceeded 5,000 TPS in the first testing scenario.

Scenario	Description	Best Performance Observed
Scenario 1	Mediation use case. Included XSD validation, an XSL transformation, another XSD validation, a SOAP message generation, and payload driven content-based routing to the final service endpoint.	Maximum TPS: 5,184          Message Size: 1 K bytes (D0) Concurrent Request Level: 84
Scenario 2	Legacy-To-SOA Integration Use Case. Passed data through a HL7/EDI transformation, an XSL transformation with a XSD validation. Generated SOAP response and reply using MLLP.	Maximum TPS: 980               Message Size: 0.42K (D1) Concurrent Request Level: 84
Scenario 3	Security Policies. Decrypted and verified a message, applied an XACML policy and used conditionals to send to different SOAP services.	Maximum TPS: 1,050                 Message Size: 7.64 K (D0)  Concurrent Request Level: 84

To review the complete PushToTest report, please click on the link below:

Evaluation: "PushtoTest Independent Performance Assessment of Expressway"

Industry Analyst Reviews of our Comprehensive Security Gateway

OVUM Butler Group Intel SOA Expressway Technology Audit

In this Technology Audit from January 2010, OVUM Butler Group analyst Rob Hailstone describes Intel SOA Expressway and how the software appliance can be deployed as a point of entry for SOA, or as a point-of-usage device that offloads process-intensive tasks from a traditional Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). The report provides coverage on how Intel SOA Expressway delivers a set of run-time governance functions, both passive such as monitoring and auditing, and active such as policy enforcement and security gateway functionality. In his review, Rob elaborates on how Intel SOA Expressway may be viewed as several different types of products, according to customer situation / need.

Evaluation: "OVUM Butler Group Intel^® SOA Expressway Technology Audit"

451 Group Market Insight: Security Gateway

In this Market Insight Report, 451 Group Analyst Dennis Callaghan provides a comprehensive independent review of the SOA Appliance market, including Intel SOA Expressway. Dennis details Intel's acquisition of XML acceleration vendor Sarvega and of Conformative Systems, and presents Intel SOA Expressway's evolution from 2005 until the report date. The report describes Intel's channel partners, strategic partnerships, and go-to-market strategy. Dennis concludes with a detailed SWOT analysis of the Intel SOA Expressway product.

Evaluation: " 451 Group Market Insight - Security Gateway"

Additional Information

Visit our companion dynamic perimeter site for additional information on:

Comprehensive Gateway Security

Security Gateway

Service Gateway

For further information, please click on the links below:

· White Paper: "Comparison to IBM* DataPower X150"

· Compare SOA Expressway to Layer 7* and Vordel*