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IBM WebSphere DataPower
IBM WebSphere
DataPower B2B Appliance
XB62
Increase the speed and reliability of extending your
business beyond organizational walls
Today’s dynamic business environments mean organizations must
Highlights work smarter to remain competitive and respond to changing customer
demands. Key to working smarter is business agility, ensuring all parts of
Centralize and consolidate business-
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your organization, internal and external, can quickly and easily capitalize
to-business (B2B) trading-partner
connectivity with a purpose-built, on opportunities and respond to new situations. Many enterprises are
DMZ-ready B2B Gateway looking to increase the speed and reliability with which they can extend
core enterprise applications and services beyond their walls to customers,
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Access new customers and new routes
to market with standards-based trading- suppliers and partners—all with robust, secure partner transaction and
partner management process management.
Rapidly adjust product and service
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offerings to meet changing requirements The IBM® WebSphere® DataPower® B2B Appliance XB62 extends
with support for Web 2.0 technologies your business to customers and partners with DMZ-grade security.
Unlock siloed information with drop-in
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Designed to make it easier for your partners and customers to do
B2B integration for heterogeneous business with you, this configuration-drive appliance can help increase
environment the speed of onboarding new partners, centralize and consolidate B2B
trading partner connectivity and transaction management, and unlock
siloed information with drop-in B2B integration for heterogeneous
environments.
In addition to a general expectation for a significant increase in B2B
traffic, there is a growing convergence of B2B capabilities with service
oriented architecture (SOA), connectivity and business process manage-
ment (BPM). Many B2B scenarios tracked by analysts are evolving to

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include more integration, and middleware vendors are increas-
ingly delivering B2B capabilities embedded and integrated
within their platforms. As SOA governance of B2B interactions
grows rapidly, many organizations are looking to modernize and
update an aging B2B infrastructure.
What is an ESB-enabled B2B Gateway
appliance?
An enterprise service bus (ESB)-enabled B2B Gateway makes
The WebSphere DataPower B2B Appliance XB62 is a purpose-
the services of one organization available to others in a con-
built, easy-to-use appliance designed for simplified deployment,
trolled and secure manner, and provides capabilities such as
exceptional performance and hardened security at the edge
connection security, nonrepudiation and community and part-
of the enterprise. This appliance is built to provide a high-
ner management. Additionally, it uses the integration services
performance and security-enhanced B2B Gateway for virtually
needed to make it easy to integrate to internal systems or
all trading partner connections. It uses trading-partner configu-
directly to applications. These services, built on a DataPower
ration and document policy processing in the DMZ to provide
appliance form factor, add integrated network functions with
secure business-to-business transaction handling at the edge
less complexity and a smaller deployment footprint. The XB62
of the network, protecting your private network from
incorporates and builds upon the DataPower Integration
unreliable data.
Appliance, adding B2B functions that can extend integration
beyond the enterprise. Figure 1 depicts the services added
The XB62 features the following:
on top of DataPower’s Integration capabilities to provide
secure and reliable connections to your trading partners.
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2U high-density rack-mount design
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Two network I/O modules for increased flexibility and
Why an appliance for B2B connectivity? serviceability (eight 1 Gb and two 10 Gb ports)
How easy is it for your partners and customers to do ●● ●
Latest-generation hardware technology that can increase
business with you? Is your mission-critical information
performance and capacity
compartmentalized and difficult to share across internal ●● ●
Increased serviceability with multiple field-replaceable parts
or external boundaries? The IBM WebSphere DataPower ●● ●
Customized intrusion-detection handling
B2B Appliance XB62 (Figure 1) combines the drop-in conve- ●● ●
Enhanced LEDs that provide enhanced user feedback
nience of standards-based B2B, with the DMZ-grade hardware ●● ●
Enhanced hardware diagnostic tools that simplify problem
security and the capacity needed to securely extend your
isolation
business to customers and partners. The XB62’s centralized,
consolidated and secure B2B trading partner and transaction
management is designed to result in fast, reliable onboarding
of new partners and customers at a lower cost to you.
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you to quickly and seamlessly bridge B2B messaging protocols
to standard application layer protocols like HTTP(S), FTP(S),
SFTP, MQ and NFS. The XB62 is part of IBM’s B2B portfolio.
DataPower XB62
BPM or
It is designed to operate and work seamlessly as part of your
B2B
Services
Integration
Services
Internal ESB
entire business ecosystem (partners, internal organization and
• Partner
suppliers) and can be be ready for virtually any marketplace
• Protocol
Provisioning
Bridges
• Community
• Content-based
Management
• Non Repudiation
• B2B Messaging
Routing
• Any-to-Any
Transformation
situation immediately after deployment, all while reducing your
Internet
(EDIINT, ebXML)
Partners
• B2B Security
• B2B MDNs/Asks
• Policy
Enforcement
• Multistage
Apps
IT costs. By integrating many core B2B, SOA and web-services
• B2B Exception
Pipeline
Handling
• B2B Monitoring
Processing
• Service
Level functions into a single, purpose-built device, the XB62 may
Management
Network Services
help you access new customers and new routes to market by
•
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IP Address Filtering / Host Aliasing
VLAN Support / Standby Control simplifying, standardizing and securing the integration of
• Packet Trace / SNMP Traps
partners, customers and suppliers with your enterprise.
Centralize and consolidate B2B
Figure 1: B2B enabled ESB with integrated network services trading-partner connectivity
The heart of the XB62 is its B2B Gateway Service. This service
Access new customers with is designed to position the XB62 in a way that centralizes and
standards-based B2B Messaging consolidates B2B trading-partner and transaction management.
The XB62 is an unique B2B appliance, delivering core B2B The B2B Gateway Service can enable the XB62 to handle sim-
functions, including support for EDIINT AS1, AS2 and AS3, ple partner connections with data passing through directly to
ebMS 2.0, ebXML Collaboration Protocol Profiles and end applications for further processing. If more complex data
Agreements and plain-text email messaging; partner profile flows are required, the application integration capabilities of the
administration; routing of electronic data interchange (EDI), XB62 can be used to perform data validation, transformation,
XML and binary payloads; auto archiving and purging of B2B rules-based enforcement and content-based routing. The B2B
transactions; and B2B transaction viewing capabilities. As more Gateway Service is a configuration object that is responsible for
industries increasingly require AS2 and/or ebMS for their processing and routing B2B data. Simple-to-use partner and
partner communications, the Drummond AS2 certification as hub-configuration tools can allow for rapid configuration
well as the Drummond ebMS certification of the XB62 ensures and management of B2B partners, easing access to new custom-
maximum interoperability for exchanging B2B data. The XB62 ers and increasing revenue opportunities with new routes to
also provides robust protocol-bridging capabilities that allow market for products and services. To facilitate reuse, profiles can
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support multiple destinations and the profiles can be associated Bridge the gap between internal
with any number of B2B Gateway services. The B2B Viewer integration and external integration
enables administrators to view all transactions that pass through IBM recognizes the convergence between B2B integration
the B2B Gateway Service and resend failed transactions to (external integration) and application integration (internal inte-
trading partners. Additionally, a standalone B2B viewer service gration) and understands that some integration functions are
can be used with DataPower’s Role-based Management capabil- needed at the edge of the network to support complex B2B
ities to give trading partners visibility of the state of their flows and to provide greater flexibility for file processing and
transactions that were received or sent from the gateway. routing. The XB62 provides the same integration capabilities as
Meet changing customer requirements. our integration appliance (that is, the WebSphere DataPower
Integration Appliance XI52), enabling you to easily and seam-
Modern web applications are evolving from static pages and lessly bridge external integration and internal integration flows
forms into interactions that rival native desktop programs like between the DMZ and the protected network. A typical deploy-
email clients, street-mapping software, and customer relation- ment pattern consists of an XB62 in the DMZ handling secure
ship management (CRM) systems. Customers and partners connectivity to trading partners and B2B integration, passing
across all industries demand the same level of interactivity and data to an XI52 in the protected network handling all internal
data access for their information, as well. Unfortunately, critical ESB functions.
business data is often locked away in mature applications that
weren’t designed for this kind of usage. With its native support
Unlock siloed information with drop-in
for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and representational
state transfer (REST), the IBM WebSphere DataPower B2B
B2B integration
In addition to the array of B2B functions performed by the
Appliance XB62 can create new, low-cost services by quickly
XB62, the device has the capability to transform data quickly
unleashing legacy and non-XML real-time data for consump-
between a wide variety of formats, including XML, industry
tion by dynamic Web 2.0 applications. In addition to support-
standards and custom formats. The broader integration func-
ing a broad range of EDIINT protocols, the XB62 has the
tions of the XB62 include routing, bridging, transformation and
ability to connect to legacy data and to handle non-XML
event handling, and are designed as reliable, performance-
formats. And since the XB62 is a configuration-driven
oriented solutions to many integration challenges. Because it is
appliance, these integrations can be achieved with little to
not limited to handling just XML, the WebSphere DataPower
no modification of the underlying hosting applications.
B2B Appliance XB62 resonates with IT organizations that need
to benefit from the connectivity of B2B and SOA deployments
but must also manage a combination of multiple proprietary,
industry, company-specific and existing data formats. The
device is a true drop-in B2B and SOA integration point for
heterogeneous environments, helping extend applications
throughout the enterprise, reduce the time and cost of B2B
and SOA connectivity and speed the time to market for new
services.
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The WebSphere DataPower B2B Why IBM?
Appliance XB62 helps empower you to: Organizations of all sizes employ IBM WebSphere DataPower
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Support high volume B2B transaction environments. SOA appliances to reduce IT complexity, reduce their costs,
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Reduce IT costs with simplified deployment, configuration improve their ROI and foster new business. The IBM approach
and maintenance. to SOA appliances provides value to a variety of organizations
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Connect quickly to your trading partners. throughout major industries and for customer locations that
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Support B2B governance and security in the DMZ. span the globe—and you can combine different DataPower
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Combine B2B Gateway, transformation and connectivity models to enable optimal functions at an optimal price.
functions in a single device.
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Accelerate EDI, XML and web-services processing and For more information
expedite B2B deployments. The best SOA appliance is the one that helps your business as-
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Eliminate overhead and disruption to existing IT pirations become reality. To learn more about IBM WebSphere
infrastructure. DataPower appliances, or to confirm which appliance is the best
fit for your organization, contact your IBM sales representative
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