Brocade® Virtual Traffic Manager (formerly SteelApp Traffic Manager) with Web Application Firewall and Web Accelerator is a high performance application delivery controller designed to deliver fast, secure & more reliable access to web sites & applications & offers 'High Availability' via active-active deployment. It offers more than load balancing. Control & optimize end-user services by inspecting, transforming, prioritizing & routing application traffic. Apply a range of optimization techniques to ensure that incoming requests are presented in the most appropriate manner to the web & application servers. The Brocade Web Application Firewall (vWAF) surrounds applications with a strong security perimeter that establishes a secure session identifier, proactively encrypts cookies & URLs & applies site usage enforcement. Signatures & ID tools secure common vulnerabilities. Receive real-time alerts & reports on attack trends, application behaviour for full audit tracking & logging. Test ruleset suggestions in shadow mode prior to enforcing behaviour & improve performance by creating white & black lists. It helps meet PCI-DSS 6.6 requirements. SteelApp Web Accelerator speeds up web content served across networks regardless of access device or browser used. Automatic performance optimization accelerates load times of complex web pages by up to four times. Intelligent caching & dynamic compression reduces data on the wire by up to 90%.