Application delivery isn't a single problem
Delivering an application to your users — quickly and reliably — takes load balancing, security, performance and flexibility all at once. Traffic grows beyond what your servers handle. You add SSL for security; your CPU starts to feel it. User sessions need to stay open, but also need to move automatically to another server if one fails. The more separate tools you add to manage all of this, the harder it gets to find the source of a problem when something goes wrong.
Most organizations answer this by stacking products — one for load balancing, one for SSL, one for caching, one for security. Each product has its own setup, its own interface, its own behavior. Making a single change means coordinating across all of them. When an outage happens, finding which product caused it is a job in itself.
TR7 brings all of it into one platform. Load balancing, SSL, caching, optimization and routing — the whole delivery layer lives in a single configuration object, defined visually. And the performance numbers you read on this page are numbers you can verify on your own hardware, with standard tools.
Five things that set TR7 ADC apart
Each of these is valuable on its own. Together, they redefine what you can expect from an application delivery platform.
Bandwidth that counts only what users actually receive
Most vendors count every byte through the platform — including attacks blocked, requests rejected, traffic routed elsewhere. TR7 counts only what your virtual services actually serve. You pay for what reaches your users, not for what your platform protects them from.
Line-rate performance, verifiable on your hardware
100+ Gbps in a single platform. Hardware-accelerated SSL at 20–30 Gbps per core. Less than 1 millisecond of added latency with WAAP, DDoS protection and SSL termination all running together. Every figure can be reproduced on your own hardware with standard benchmarking tools — measurable performance, not marketing numbers.
Visual flow management. No scripting language.
Traffic rules, security policies and content routing — all built in a visual flow builder. Point, click, ship. A new engineer on your team gets to live production within hours, with no weeks of vendor certification first.
Priced to fit, not to punish
Same kind of catalog you'd expect from any ADC vendor — enterprise and service-provider tiers, perpetual, fixed-term and pay-as-you-go options, clustering and add-on licenses. The difference is the level of pricing: consistently more affordable than traditional ADC vendors, with Active-Passive clustering offered as a particularly cost-effective high-availability path.
50 Mbps to 800 Gbps. Same platform.
Branch office to global data center — same software, same interface, same feature set. Only the throughput changes. Your engineers learn the platform once and stay productive whether the workload runs on a small virtual machine or a data-center-class appliance.
What TR7 ADC includes for application delivery
Every capability you expect from a modern ADC, delivered from one platform with one configuration model.
vService — one object, one configuration
Frontend listener, traffic rules, SSL termination, health checks and backend group all live as a single object. Change it once; it applies everywhere it runs.
Every standard algorithm plus Fastest+
Round-robin, least-connections, consistent hash, Maglev, SED — every classical and modern load-balancing algorithm. Plus TR7's proprietary 8-signal Fastest+ engine, which scores response time, queue depth, connect time and more on every request to pick the right backend.
SSL/TLS at wire speed
Hardware-accelerated SSL at 20–30 Gbps per core. TLS 1.3 single-round-trip handshakes and Zero-RTT session resumption shorten connection setup for your users.
Smart caching and compression
Response caching with fine-grained control. GZIP and Brotli compression. Conditional fetch handling. Cuts backend load substantially on read-heavy workloads.
HTTP optimization
Connection multiplexing, keep-alive reuse, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 termination, header rewriting. Scales nearly linearly with CPU cores.
Multi-protocol delivery
HTTP/HTTPS, raw TCP and UDP, plus FTP relay, SQL relay and UDP proxy listeners. One platform carries the whole protocol mix.
Visual rule engine — IF / AND / OR / DO
Build traffic rules the way you build smartphone shortcuts. Match on URL, header, source IP, geo, cookie or bot score. Act with redirect, rewrite, content switching or rate limit. No scripting language.
Health checks — active, passive, custom
Active probes at any interval, passive observation of live traffic, and custom check scripts when the standard probes do not match what 'healthy' actually means for your application.
Global Server Load Balancing
Multi-region Active-Active or Active-Passive with health-based DNS routing. The same vService model extends across sites — no second product to learn.
Multi-tenant delivery (with Platform License)
Service providers run isolated tenants on shared TR7 infrastructure. Per-tenant vServices, per-tenant policies, per-tenant audit — one platform serving many customers without cross-contamination.
vHost-based auto-vService creation
Add a hostname to an IP and port — TR7 creates an isolated vService automatically, with its own SSL certificates, WAAP rules, rate limits and backend group. No manual per-service IP allocation or hand-stitched host-header routing.
Web console and CLI in your browser
No SSH session required. Full-featured CLI with tab completion right inside the web interface. Run tcpdump, ping, traceroute from the browser.
Architecture — how a request flows
Six clear stages. Every stage configurable per vService. Every stage visible as a diagram in the Dynamic Flow Panel.
Frontend listener
The vService listens on the IP and port you configure. TLS terminates here when configured. vHost-based vServices create automatically from a hostname — no manual per-service IP allocation.
Visual rules engine
Match on URL, header, cookie, geo, body fragment or bot score. Combine with AND / OR. Act with redirect, rewrite, content switching or rate limit — no scripting required for any of it.
Backend selection
The chosen algorithm picks a backend, taking health-check state, session stickiness and per-backend weight into account. Fastest+ adds 8 live performance signals to the decision.
Backend connection
Persistent connection pool to each backend with keep-alive reuse. New connections open only when the pool is full. Idle connections age out per policy.
Response processing
Responses are cached where the cache policy allows. Compression, header rewriting and (if configured) body transformation apply. Cached responses serve directly from the ADC on matching subsequent requests.
Live observability
Every stage emits structured telemetry: request counts, latency percentiles per backend, health-check transitions, cache hit ratios. Available in the Dynamic Flow Panel and via the REST API.
Where this outcome shows up
Multi-region active-active delivery
Two or more sites carrying live traffic. TR7 delivers locally at each site and routes users to the nearest healthy region, shifting traffic automatically when one degrades.
High-traffic website
Intense campaigns, viral spikes or seasonal surges. SSL offload, response caching and connection multiplexing absorb the traffic at the ADC. Your backend servers can stay sized for sustained load, not momentary peaks.
Migrating off a traditional ADC
Aging hardware, opaque renewal pricing, every feature behind a separate quote. TR7 carries the full delivery layer with published, consistently more affordable pricing — and Active-Passive clustering as a particularly cost-effective HA path.
Consolidating different protocols onto one platform
HTTP/HTTPS web traffic alongside TCP database connections, FTP transfers and UDP services. One platform carries the whole mix — no separate appliance per protocol.
Service-provider multi-tenant delivery
Service providers running TR7 with a Platform License deliver isolated services to many tenants on shared infrastructure — per-tenant vServices, per-tenant audit, per-tenant policy. One platform, many customers, no cross-contamination.
Features that implement this solution
Capabilities referenced by this solution — the technical pieces that compose the controls described above.
Load Balancing Algorithms
Classical, consistent hash, Maglev, SED, and TR7's proprietary two-stage Fastest+ engine. Picked per vService, hot-swapped.
Served Bandwidth Model
Bandwidth is measured at the vService client-facing boundary as combined RX and TX. Pre-vService blocks and application-server pass-through do not count — license the tier you actually need.
Session Affinity
9 ways to keep a user on the same backend across requests — from source-IP to SAM, TR7's configurable cookie engine.
Fastest+ Routing
Two-stage live signal — among the lowest-response-time candidates, pick the one with the emptiest queue.
Connection Multiplexing
Carry client traffic to backends without mirroring every connection — fewer handshakes, lower latency.
Cookie Security Flags
Complete missing HttpOnly, Secure and SameSite flags at the response layer — no application changes required.
CORS Policy Rule
Manage preflight and response CORS headers from a single rule, without touching application code.
Hot Config Reload (Zero-Downtime)
Change the config, keep live connections — not every rule update should require a maintenance window.
HTTP Redirect Rules
Manage HTTP→HTTPS transitions, domain migrations, path moves and error redirects without touching application code.
IP Masking and Normalization
Mask IP for log privacy, reconstruct the correct client IP across proxy chains.
Native IPFIX / NetFlow Export
Move beyond L3/L4 — carry HTTP context into your flow records.
JSON Path Operations
Turn JSON body fields and JWT content into first-class signals for every traffic decision.
Native Prometheus + Grafana Integration
Pull Prometheus metrics from TR7 without deploying a separate exporter — dashboards ready out of the box.
Per-vService Traffic Shaping and QoS
Apply per-vService, per-user or shared bandwidth limits and distribute traffic capacity in a controlled way at the application layer.
Response Body Modification
Mask, replace or inject HTML into response content — without changing a line of backend code.
URL and Path Rewriting
Change the path, not the backend — the client keeps its URL while a new architecture runs inside.
Traffic Rules Engine
Write rules visually, get compiled traffic behavior — manage request and response flow without scripting.
FX Expression and Variable Engine
One expression language — traffic, health, logging, GTM, security and access decisions in the same model.
Live Traffic Tracking
See production traffic request by request — turn observation directly into rule actions.
L7 Traffic Analytics & Reporting
30+ breakdown dimensions, three formats (PDF / XLSX / HTML), up to 10 years of on-device history — no separate management server.
Scheduled Report Delivery
vService profiles, 5 frequency presets, multi-recipient email, cluster-aware single-send — same engine for ad-hoc and scheduled.
Cookie Encryption Rule
Hide cookie values from the client — protect session integrity without touching backend code.
HA Clustering
Run two nodes as a single logical ADC — VIP failover, state replication and controlled maintenance in one cluster model.
VIP and IP Scenarios
Manage VIPs not just as IP addresses — but with interface type, VLAN, cluster role and transition method.
Content-Aware Rules
Move beyond headers — make body content part of the traffic and security decision.
SSL/TLS Acceleration
Move TLS beyond file-based configuration — turn it into a per-service security profile, certificate lifecycle and post-quantum readiness layer.
TLS / mTLS Client-Cert Authentication
Lift the client certificate out of connection control and turn it into an identity object that drives traffic decisions.
Deployment Topology Modes
Insert TR7 ADC into the traffic path without touching backend IP addresses, gateways or routes.
Multi-Namespace Architecture and Cross-NS Routing
Connect services without merging networks — manage overlapping IP plans and tenant isolation with a single vService model.
Active Health Monitoring
Go beyond 200 OK — validate backends at protocol, session and content level.
Response Caching
Serve frequent responses without a backend round-trip — reduce latency and free capacity.
Route Table Management
Every tenant in its own routing world — overlapping IPs, static + dynamic routing and gateway monitoring from one panel.
Dynamic Interface Management
No reboot. No maintenance window. Interface changes go live.
Built-In Firewall
ADC, routing and L3/L4 security from a single console.
ACME Cert Renewal
Certificate renewal stops being a calendar task — TR7 ADC monitors, renews and applies the certificate to the service.
Virtual Hosts
One VIP, one port — unlimited domain separation via SNI and Host header.
Waiting Room
The queue lives on the platform, not in your application — and the capacity is found before the event, not during it.
On-Prem GSLB
Make DNS and GSLB decisions on your own appliances — zone data and traffic policy never leave your premises.
DNS Geographic Routing
Set resolver IP aside — make DNS decisions based on the user's real subnet, ASN and location.
DC Failover
When the primary DC goes down, DNS reshapes automatically — no manual intervention needed.
Weighted DNS
Percentage-based traffic distribution — in the language of DNS.
Health Check Scenarios
Take DNS responses beyond static records — let data-centre, application and service health drive every decision.
Express Zone Acceleration
Authoritative DNS pulled from a hidden master, served from memory at line rate.
Bidirectional HC Scenarios
The path into failover and the path back are separately policy-controlled.
Multi-Source DC Selection
Decide which data center wins each query — using host, service, and client-side signals together.
WAN/LAN Dual-Path Monitoring
Each data center's WAN and LAN access paths are monitored independently — partial reachability is a recognized state, not a binary.
On-Prem DNSSEC
Per-domain DNSSEC with key custody on your own infrastructure — no third-party signing service.
L4 Modes
TCP, UDP, DSR and IP tunnel — packet-level L4 load balancing on a single ADC.
Three Service Types
Pick the service type and TR7 shows only the right features — backend groups managed in the same model.
CA Management
Your own root, server CA and device CA — issue, enrol, revoke and track certificates inside TR7.
Smart ACL Conditions
Not just an IP list — real traffic intelligence across 60+ criteria, AND/OR/NOT groups and Smart Function chains.
Timeout Profiles
Not just one idle value — 9 independent timeout axes in a single named profile, applied per pool to match every traffic type.
Pool Connection Limits
Encode backend capacity across 8 axes — connections, rate, session, SSL, buffer and retry in one profile.
Proximity-Based DNS Routing
Steer every query to the closest data center — geographic proximity as a latency proxy, decided on-device.
DNS Record Management
35 record types, DNSSEC and AXFR — the GSLB decision engine paired with full DNS operations on one platform.
GTM Triggers and Forwarders
GTM does more than produce DNS answers — when health state changes it fires external triggers and routes DNS queries to the right forwarder.
Common questions
What does TR7's bandwidth license actually meter?
Are the performance numbers really verifiable?
What is the difference between a load balancer and an ADC?
How long does deployment take?
Which deployment forms does TR7 ADC support?
How does TR7 pricing compare to other ADC vendors?
Is there a scripting language to learn?
Measure it on your own hardware
Request a live demo of TR7 ADC. We'll reproduce every performance figure in your environment with standard tools — not in a vendor lab.