They are expensive but give you full control.
F5 load balancer appliance.
A blend of software and hardware that s a load balancer and a full proxy.
F5 networks kemp technologies netscaler citrix comparison detailed feature performance specifications and price comparison of the three leading load balancer adc vendor offerings.
When a server went down or became overloaded big ip directed traffic away from that server to other servers that could handle the load.
Cloud load balancer is trending more than ever.
A load balancer is a device that acts as a reverse proxy and distributes network or application traffic across a number of servers.
Nuts and bolts read the white paper.
In june 1999 the company had its initial public offering and was listed on the nasdaq stock exchange with symbol ffiv.
It gives you the ability to control the traffic that passes through your network optimizing performance.
Some of the popular lb hardware vendors are.
Load balancers are used to increase capacity concurrent users and reliability of applications.
Vendor model throughput kemp lm x1 1gbps kemp lm x3 3 4gbps kemp lm x15 15gbps kemp lm x25 25gbps kemp lm x40 40gbps kemp lm x40m 40gbps.
In 1997 f5 launched its first product a load balancer called big ip.