Load Balancing Switches

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the core routing protocol of the Internet. It maintains a table of IP networks or ‘prefixes’ which designate network reachability among autonomous systems (AS). It is described as a path vector protocol. BGP does not use traditional IGP metrics, but makes routing decisions based on path, network policies and/or rulesets.

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This post provides a brief overview of how a content switch works.  The chief function of a content switch is to inspect the data packets (containing the data content) it receives from the network and using a number of predefinied policies it will then decide how that data needs to handled or distributed (or switched). Read more about the functions of a content switch

This post provides a basic overview of content switching in the context of a load balancing switch. The basic idea behind the use of a content switch for load balancing is to add performance, scalability, high availability and resilience to a server farm (group or cluster of servers). Read more about content switch load balancing

A load balancing switch combines load-balancing functions with both layer 2 and layer 3 routing functions. The beneifts of using switches as opposed to multiple hardware devices are: Read more about load balancing switches