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Local Load Balancing Solutions
Make sure your users are always connected to a responsive, scalable system
Local load balancing ensures high availability for your applications by monitoring the health and performance of individual servers in real time. This ensures that local users are always connected to a fully functional, responsive system that is best suited for handling their requests.
F5's approach to this technology offers more than simple "load balancing." Our solutions can optimize, secure, and transparently scale the applications that businesses need to run and interact with customers and partners, while also mitigating the risk of security breaches.
Why do I need local load balancing?
Business benefits of using F5 for local load balancing include:
- Less risk of security breaches.
We employ many different security options as a core feature of our platform. Our local load balancing solutions address both network- and application-focused attacks, as well as business-oriented breaches involving information leaks. - Increased agility.
We can help your business be more agile by enabling you to address security and application problems dynamically and immediately. - Transparent scalability.
The ability of applications to scale transparently makes sure that your service-level agreements and availability goals stay in line with business needs. - Reduced server and bandwidth cost.
Our solution triples server capacity through a rich set of infrastructure optimization capabilities, and reduces bandwidth costs by up to 80 percent through intelligent HTTP compression, bandwidth management, and more.
Top Case Studies
- BlueLock - Launches unique virtual cloud computing platform using VMware virtualization and F5 BIG-IP LTM
- Rotary International Ensures Site Availability, Boosts Efficiency of Small IT Staff, with Products from F5
- Marine Resources Group Ensures 24/7 Availability with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and F5
- Joyent Gets Three-Month Payback from F5 BIG-IP LTM and iRules
- ICBC - Keeps up with immense traffic during the Beijing 2008 Games using F5 BIG-IP WebAccelerator
- Mustang Engineering - Boosts performance of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to ensure user satisfaction, improve ROI
- Komplett - Delivers fast and reliable e-commerce experience to 1.5 million users with BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
- Casero - Creates customized services for telecom clients using BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager and iRules
Top White Papers
- Scaling SIP
- Load Balancing 101 - Nuts and Bolts
- Load Balancing 101 - The evolution to application delivery controllers
Top News Articles
- FNZ teams with F5 to deliver the financial services industry's most complete third-party online account management service
- F5 Networks BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is definitive performance leader in competitive testing
- F5 World Article: IMS Readiness
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How do I implement local load balancing?
One of the key objectives of F5's Application Ready Network is to remove the pain often associated with implementing a new solution. Our award-winning local load balancing devices include a number of pre-defined policies, profiles, and wizards that result in easy, error-free configuration. And we have rigorously tested and tuned these devices with leading applications, carefully documenting the procedures in our comprehensive deployment guides
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What F5 offerings do I need for a local load balancing solution?
F5's BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager removes single points of failure and virtualizes the network and applications by providing industry-leading L7 intelligence. This ensures that all applications are always on and more scalable and easier to manage than ever before.
