But as the economy stood still, networking hardware vendors moved forward with advances in the traffic management hardware space, often segmented as Layer 4-7 networking devices. Load balancers became ...

Layer 4 and Secure Sockets Layer encryption boxes on tap from Avaya next week could be useful in balancing loads among Web servers or firewalls and speeding up encrypted Web traffic. The company’s new ...

In the previous section, we covered the HTTP protocol in detail. You now understand the URLs, methods, and cookies. In Layer 7 load balancing, the SLB device proxies the client's TCP connection and ...

Thwarting denial-of-service attacks, load balancing multiple ISP links and speeding Web services traffic – these are among the new features in Foundry Networks’ ServerIron switches Thwarting denial-of ...

This chapter introduces the reader to firewall load-balancing (FWLB) concepts, technology, and designs. We will talk about motivations behind FWLB solutions, different types of firewalls, and how to ...

Cisco Live Cisco has returned to the load balancing market using open-source software proven at scale by both Google and Meta.… The networking giant quit load balancers in 2012 when it decided to stop ...

Founded in 2012, SKUDONET secures application delivery and makes it accessible to all, empowering engineering leaders to fortify their IT services effortlessly. The company name is inspired by the ...

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