eMARA: The integrated front-end solution combining single sign-on, load balancing, SSL and content acceleration

eMaraIf your company builds business-to-business, business-to-customer or Internet banking portals, you need technology that can provide security, confidentiality, authentication, high performance and availability. eMARA is the integrated solution that provides all of those functions in one box.

Through its multiple features of single sign-on, SSL acceleration, content acceleration and load balancing, eMARA helps you consolidate different web applications provided by one or more suppliers in different servers, and integrate them into one single entry point behind the Web interface.
Three important concepts operate behind eMARA: the use of virtual servers, virtual applications and URL maps. Virtual servers are Web servers with a visible Web address. Virtual applications provide the same service to clients from more than one server. And a URL map acts as a bridge between the two.
Your eMARA can host as many virtual servers and virtual applications as intended. And a virtual application can contain as many servers as available. The benefit of this is more horsepower for all your users and increased availability of your service.

Load Balancer

Once you have created a virtual application within eMARA, it will automatically balance the traffic load among those physical servers. eMARA uses one of the following algorithms to balance the load: balancing algorithms, Source IP, Round Robin or User ID.

Single Sign-On

eMARA has a handy feature called "Single Sign-On". When users log in to any single virtual application, they will be asked to authenticate once. After signing in, they will have access to all the Web applications so there is no need to log in more than once. The types of authentication methods eMARA supports, include LDAP, NT domains and token authentication. You can also configure eMARA to interact with third-party cookie-based authentication mechanisms.

SSL and content accelerator

Confidentiality and high-speed performance are provided simultaneously by eMARA's virtual servers. They relieve the load from Web servers by handling the cryptographic calculations (SSL encryption/decryption for HTTPS-based service). The SSL tunnels are terminated at eMARA and HTTP requests are sent to the back-end servers, eliminating the overhead created by SSL handshake and data encryption and decryption. If required by your security policy, eMARA can be set to use SSL to communicate with selected servers in a desired application.

eMARA does not only speed up your Web application by taking the SSL work away from the Web servers, but also caches your site's static content so less requests are sent to them.

For secure, confidential and efficient management of Web portals, eMARA is your onestep solution.

eMARA Key Features:

  • Reverse Proxy with global functions
  • SSL Accelerator
  • Content Acceleration
  • URL and content rewriting
  • Load Balancer for HTTP and HTTPS
  • Single Sign On
  • HIgh-Availability