F5 BIG IP Load Balancing

BIG-IP is an active device that intelligently allocates Internet and Intranet service requests across a group of network servers to ensure high availability of content and QoS for IP services for end users. The product intelligently load balances Web, e-mail, news, LDAP, telephony, multimedia and other IP protocol traffic; database access; and FTP, firewall and cache server traffic, automatically routing client requests to the most available server.

Key features of BIG-IP include:

• Four load balancing options that allow administrators to route requests to the fastest server connection
  
  
• Fastest - passes connections to the available server that responds most quickly
  
  
• Round robin - the next server in a predetermined sequence
  
  
• Least connects - the server with the least number of current connections
  
  
• Ratio - the server that best fits the request according to a system that assigns weights for factors such as server capacity browser-based graphical installation and configuration tool that provides simple point-and-click configuration of all BIG-IP LB features.

Main Product Features

• Performance and Scalability Features
• Connections/second - 8,000
• Megabits/second - 90 Mbps
• Packets/second - 67,000
• VIP/node combined - 40,000
• Gigabit Option
• nPath Supported

Load balancing methods

• Round robin
• Ratio
• Fastest
• Least connections

Pricing:

One time set-up: $1000
Monthly: $1,250 for 2 ports/servers
$500 for additional port/server

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