4 Reasons to Choose Switch-Based Server Load Balancing
(Note from Uri: Today's post is contributed by RADirect Senior Marketing Manager Orit Livnat-Levi)
At RADirect, we talk to many customers each month who are in need of a server load balancing solution. In a field crowded with strong players offering similar products at similar pricing, we’re often challenged to explain why we think Radware’s AppDirector server load balancer is superior:
1. Radware’s software is loaded onto a switch with 44Gbps non-blocking back plane, 2 network processors and a dedicated CPU. You’ll get faster and more consistent layer 4-7 switching performance.
2. It’s a switch. No failure-prone hard drive or OS means an MTBF of 150,000 hours.
3. No security vulnerabilities common to PC-based architecture.
4. Health monitoring, bandwidth management, application security and network management tasks are built-in and performed without degrading the guaranteed 3 Gbps throughput of layer 4-7 switching.
The AppDirector also has other features you’d expect from a high end server load balancing solution, including support for VLAN tagging, high-port density and browser-based management. Almost all the applications we sell are for a redundant config with active-active failover.