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UK College Admissions on Course with Radware

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Industries	Education
Applicable Functions	Human Resources
Use Cases	Infrastructure Inspection Cybersecurity
Services	System Integration
Challenge	The Universities and Colleges Admission Service (UCAS) is the UK’s central organization that processes applications for universities and colleges across the country. UCAS has been processing student applications online since 2002. Today, nearly all students are using the online application system with 98.5% submitting applications as of January 2006, using electronic means via www.ucas.com in comparison with 77.6% at the same point last year. The UCAS website was independently audited by ABC Electronic during November 2005. They verified that the total number of page impressions was 67,289,583 for that month. Due to the continuous surge in online applications UCAS deployed Radware’s APSolute Education solutions to guarantee the continuous, fault tolerant and secure operation of the UCAS website. Read More
About Customer	The Universities and Colleges Admission Service (UCAS) is the UK’s central organization that processes applications for universities and colleges across the country. UCAS has been processing student applications online since 2002. Today, nearly all students are using the online application system with 98.5% submitting applications as of January 2006, using electronic means via www.ucas.com in comparison with 77.6% at the same point last year. The UCAS website was independently audited by ABC Electronic during November 2005. They verified that the total number of page impressions was 67,289,583 for that month. Read More
Solution	To guarantee the high availability of UCAS’s IP applications, web servers and application servers, Radware’s award winning WSD was implemented. Through advanced APSolute OS Health Monitoring and Traffic Redirection, WSD detects network failures in real time and directs traffic to the best performing and operational servers. To enable the continuous growth of online operations, WSD affords for unlimited application scaling, handling growing traffic volumes and enabling service evolution without additional infrastructure investments. In order to ensure continuous and cost efficient Internet connectivity with UCAS’s multiple ISPs, Radware’s LinkProof was chosen. LinkProof delivers the high performance and optimized operation of UCAS’s multiple ISP links, delivering accelerated content delivery while controlling connectivity costs and extending advanced application acceleration to boost application response times for the best end user experience. At peak times, nearly 70% of all UCAS traffic is transaction based using SSL security. As a result, UCAS implemented Radware’s CertainT 100 to processes SSL Transactions at Gigabit speeds. CertainT 100 offloads traffic to an ASIC based hardware while compressing content and caching it to free expensive server CPU cycles for maximum performance, cost effective SSL handling and immediate ROI. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Applicable Industries

Education

Applicable Functions

Human Resources

Use Cases

Infrastructure Inspection

Cybersecurity

Services

System Integration

Challenge

The Universities and Colleges Admission Service (UCAS) is the UK’s central organization that processes applications for universities and colleges across the country. UCAS has been processing student applications online since 2002. Today, nearly all students are using the online application system with 98.5% submitting applications as of January 2006, using electronic means via www.ucas.com in comparison with 77.6% at the same point last year. The UCAS website was independently audited by ABC Electronic during November 2005. They verified that the total number of page impressions was 67,289,583 for that month. Due to the continuous surge in online applications UCAS deployed Radware’s APSolute Education solutions to guarantee the continuous, fault tolerant and secure operation of the UCAS website.

About Customer

Solution

To guarantee the high availability of UCAS’s IP applications, web servers and application servers, Radware’s award winning WSD was implemented. Through advanced APSolute OS Health Monitoring and Traffic Redirection, WSD detects network failures in real time and directs traffic to the best performing and operational servers. To enable the continuous growth of online operations, WSD affords for unlimited application scaling, handling growing traffic volumes and enabling service evolution without additional infrastructure investments. In order to ensure continuous and cost efficient Internet connectivity with UCAS’s multiple ISPs, Radware’s LinkProof was chosen. LinkProof delivers the high performance and optimized operation of UCAS’s multiple ISP links, delivering accelerated content delivery while controlling connectivity costs and extending advanced application acceleration to boost application response times for the best end user experience. At peak times, nearly 70% of all UCAS traffic is transaction based using SSL security. As a result, UCAS implemented Radware’s CertainT 100 to processes SSL Transactions at Gigabit speeds. CertainT 100 offloads traffic to an ASIC based hardware while compressing content and caching it to free expensive server CPU cycles for maximum performance, cost effective SSL handling and immediate ROI.

Impact #1	Radware’s APSolute Education Solutions gives the best possible availability and security of applications for high-demand web sites.
Impact #2	The UCAS web site is under immense and growing pressure during certain periods of the year, but optimized application performance and responsiveness is required all year round.
Impact #3	With Radware, UCAS and the thousands of prospective students are ensured that the web site retains its availability, performance and complete security with industry leading enterprise application solutions.

Impact #1

Radware’s APSolute Education Solutions gives the best possible availability and security of applications for high-demand web sites.

Impact #2

The UCAS web site is under immense and growing pressure during certain periods of the year, but optimized application performance and responsiveness is required all year round.

Impact #3

With Radware, UCAS and the thousands of prospective students are ensured that the web site retains its availability, performance and complete security with industry leading enterprise application solutions.

Benefit #1	98.5% of students submitting applications online as of January 2006
Benefit #2	67,289,583 total number of page impressions for November 2005

Benefit #1

98.5% of students submitting applications online as of January 2006

Benefit #2

67,289,583 total number of page impressions for November 2005

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UK College Admissions on Course with Radware

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