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Cisco Load Balancer

by tonymurphy on July 5, 2009

As per previous posts Load balancing can either be hardware or software based. In the Cisco world software based load balancing is handled by IOS SLB! That’s a bit of a mouthful, so lets list out a few definitions to make it clear:

IOS stands for Internetwork Operating System and consists of a combination of switching, internetworking and telecommunications functions all of which are integrated within a multitasking operating system, and

SLB stands for Server Load Balancing and is used to balance load (packets) across multiple servers

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