Load Balancing Switches Explained

Before looking at Load Balancing Switches we will first look at what we mean by load balancing. The basic idea with load balancing is to share incoming connections across multiple hardware devices. So for example a web site may receive many thousands of hits an hour. Read more about 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