Anyone look at Radware? On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Chris Marlatt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 02/04/2013 01:10 PM, Phil Mayers wrote: > >> On 04/02/13 17:56, Chris Marlatt wrote: >> >> The Foundry/Brocade ServerIron's/ADX line work's quite well in a L2 or >>> L3 environment without NAT or being in-line. Enabling DSR (direct server >>> return, in an L2 environment) means the LB doesn't have to be within the >>> path of the normal switching/routing and their ADX line has support for >>> true multi-10Gb throughputs. DSR also means you're not burning up the >>> >> >> Interesting. Is it particularly / prohibitively expensive? Several other >> vendors hinted that a 10gig SLB device was "way out of proportion to our >> needs" and "very expensive". >> > > 10Gb load balancing has always been "expensive" but at least in our > history, that customer base has justification for the expense. > > The ADX stuff IMHO is certainly a palatable number for that much > throughput. Though if you can it's certainly worth considering redesigning > how you application functions if you need that much concentrated load > balancing. Not everyone has that option though. > > We deployed some of their WSM7's with 10Gb modules awhile back and whereas > you were linked at 10Gb you only were capable of about 6Gb worth of > Application Throughput. The ADX chassis based line negates that however. > You can grow your Application Throughput via additional Application Switch > Modules to get some pretty impressive numbers. The old 4G's or ADX1k's are > still a hearty platform for more modest traffic needs. > > Regards, > > Chris > > ______________________________**_________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/**mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp<https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp> > archive at > http://puck.nether.net/**pipermail/cisco-nsp/<http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/> > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
