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Global Load Balancing Solutions
Maintain fast and responsive user access, regardless of network conditions
Global load balancing adds flexibility and adaptability to your network, so users always have access to applications and data--even if service to your primary data center is interrupted. This type of technology helps organizations support the technical and business goals of application and data availability without sacrificing performance.
F5's global load balancing technology always directs end-users to the closest or best-performing data center available. Our load balancing capabilities are based on multiple factors, including proximity, performance, and availability, ensuring that end users receive the best experience possible when interacting with applications.
Why do I need global load balancing?
Business benefits of using F5 for global load balancing include:
- Improved business continuity.
Users are directed transparently to the appropriate data center, even in the face of disasters or any other unexpected large-scale outage. - Lower management costs and higher availability for distributed applications.
Our technology automates the management of dependencies between individual application services. - Geographic load balancing
For sites maintaining content in different languages, this ensures that users around the world get the information they need in their own language. - Dramatically improved application performance.
With advanced monitoring at the application level, users can be directed to the data center that will best deliver the application for each individual.
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How do I implement a global load balancing solution?
F5's Application Ready Network is the ideal platform for global load balancing. As part of this Application Ready Network, our engineers have produced best practice deployment guides that give global load balancing configuration instructions in step-by-step detail, saving organizations a considerable amount of time and money.
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What F5 offerings do I need for a global load balancing solution?
F5's BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) provides high availability, maximum performance, and centralized management for applications running across multiple and globally dispersed data centers. BIG-IP GTM distributes end-user application requests according to business policies and data center and network conditions to ensure the highest possible availability.
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