DRAMA Grid (Dynamic Routing Adaptive Mobile Agent) is an all-purpose, grid computing platform that brings unprecedented efficiencies and new opportunities for companies in all verticals and across business segments. DRAMA turns any machine on a network into a client, server and router while integrating the network with the application layer.

BRINGING THE NETWORK TO THE APPLICATION LAYER

The network is now a viable part of the application layer. Integrating network concepts and technology with the application layer changes the way we think about enterprise computing. By distributing and decentralizing applications and entire infrastructures, resources are used at their potential; applications provide better performance and more functionality while scalability increases significantly.

AceGain has taken the traditional seven-layer OSI networking stack, and transformed it to optimize application, network and system performance. Layer 7, the Application Layer, can best be described as a client-server model for transferring packets of information to a number of nodes. The other six layers describe a decentralized networking model similar to a router network. AceGain DRAMA takes the bottom six layers and provides an intelligent router-based, networking layer over the application layer.

INFRASTRUCTURAL SECURITY

Security is an inherent part of our platform's architecture. Other solutions will build an ad hoc security layer on top of their platform. With DRAMA, it's a fundamental part of our architecture. AceGain DRAMA virtualizes the network and secures all data transmission. There are two critical steps to securing a network:

• All network nodes must be part of a 'trusted network' where it can be safely assumed that the node you are communicating with is authorized.
  
• As the data is routed to its destination, it must be encrypted from beginning to end with no chance of unauthorized viewing.

AceGain's virtualization and security infrastructure inherently provides both of these requirements. AceGain DRAMA signs all applications on the network, while providing industry standard encryption and a proprietary naming system that protects IP identity.

NETWORK, DEVICE AND APPLICATION VIRTUALIZATION

Virtual VPN and Secured Communications with Firewall Support
Companies spend a considerable amount of time and money implementing VPNs and secure, one-to-one communications. AceGain DRAMA virtualizes the network and adds an inherent security layer that eliminates the security, cost and overhead challenges currently raised by traditional TCP/ IP technologies.

AceGain DRAMA uses a proprietary naming system that protects IP identity while making data throughput and delivery significantly easier to implement and manage. For companies challenged by network and application integration, AceGain DRAMA virtualizes the underlying complexity and makes integration easy and manageable.

For companies with complex firewall and network configurations, AceGain DRAMA consolidates all port usage and allows secure access to any data or machine across networks regardless of configuration.

GROUP MANAGEMENT

AceGain DRAMA enables administrators to categorize nodes into groups and treat that group as a single entity. Any node can be a part of any group. Grouping is a fundamental, productivity-enhancing feature that will be manifest throughout critical applications such as management, updating and data delivery.

Automatic Network Formation / Automatic Node Discovery / Complete Integration Interface
As AceGain DRAMA agents are installed throughout a network, those agents automatically discover one another, thereby forming the virtual, secure network. DRAMA also provides seamless integration with existing and future infrastructure via J2EE, SNMP and SOAP/Web Services plug-ins.

INTELLIGENT DATA, FILE AND COMMUNICATION ROUTING

AceGain DRAMA was built to optimize the delivery of data and software throughout complex and heterogeneous networks and application environments. AceGain DRAMA provides a complete peer-to-peer message, data and software delivery infrastructure that distributes overhead, optimizes Quality-of-Service (QoS) and network-wide data and file pushing. Administrators have far greater control over the flow of data, files and communication than ever before.