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Server Load Balancing

Foundry's ServerIron family of Web switches provides high performance content and application aware server load balancing. ServerIron extends the functionality of a traditional Layer 2/3 switch into higher layers by examining the content beyond the packet header to provide intelligent content switching.

  • Supports up to 16,000,000 concurrent sessions
  • Up to 2,048 Real servers and unlimited Virtual IP addresses
  • Seven methods of session persistence including Cookie and SSL Session ID based switching
  • Select a server based on host name, prefix or suffix of the URL, or by matching a pattern expression against the URL
  • Up to 256 URL switching policies, with support for nested URL policies for complex pattern matching
  • SwitchBack provides wire-speed throughput for server to client reply traffic
  • Active/Active or Active/Standby with stateful fail-over ensures no disruption to user sessions
  • Cisco-like command line interface, Web based GUI, and SNMP based management
  • Enhanced Network Address Translation(NAT) and Port Address Translation (PAT)
  • Built-in Secure Shell interface, Cisco-syntax compatible Access Control Lists (ACLs) and extended ACLs
  • Industry leading prices

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