Uninterrupted service. More secure connections. Redirected traffic. Maximum availability. Faster response. These describe the impact of HP's state-of-the-art traffic management capabilities. Network administrators - responsible for improving customer experience, optimizing server-farm performance, and providing reliable, secure, fast, and efficient Internet transactions - have found an ally in HP Traffic Management Server Appliances.sa8200 specializes in Secure Socket Layer (SSL) acceleration, providing up to 600 SSL connections per second, and load balancing functionalities. SSL acceleration appliances speed up secure e-commerce transactions by offloading SSL encryption and decryption from the server. SSL acceleration optimizes server and server-farm performance, lowers response times and provides high level of security of transactions. It offers fail over pass-through technology for uninterrupted service. Load balancing automatically and intelligently balances traffic among server farms or sites, enabling administrators to set target response times for different types of traffic. Load-balancing appliances integrate into existing server environments easily because of drop-in installation and configuration, and automatic fail over. It provides quality of service (QoS) for your most valued customers and accommodates growth because units can be cascaded. sa8200 provides layer 4 and layer 7 intelligence.