If you are running a secure e-commerce site using SSL, the Sun Crypto Accelerator 1000 board is the answer to significantly improving your server performance. As a co-processor solution, it off-loads and speeds up the SSL session establishment operation and manages unexpected peak server loads while delivering faster transactions to clients than systems no equipped with an accelerator or board. The faster and larger the number of connections established, the more reliable the connection, resulting in a better, more consistent user experience. This board also delivers 500 Mbps bulk encryption performance providing additional benefit to those customers using 3DES for bulk encryption.Running up to 4,000 operations-per-second and processing up to 2,048-bit RSA public key transactions, the Sun Crypto Accelerator 1000 board improves server response times and increases the number of clients the server can support simultaneously. Fully scalable, multiple Sun Crypto Accelerator 1000 cards can be stacked to increase performance and handle high-peak loads. The board plugs easily into the PCI slot in your server and installs seamlessly into a Sun server platform being deployed as a Web server.