Why f5 Load Balancing?
Unlike software load balancers which can overwhelm the CPU, ServePath’s solution is built with an ASIC based hardware architecture that processes and forwards layer 2 through layer 4 traffic at wire speed to provide higher throughput for increased traffic performance. Unlike pure hardware load balancers, our solution runs unique software to handle the complexities of layer 7 traffic such as rate-shaping, ssl acceleration, and compression.
The load balancers support 802.1q trunking to integrate seamlessly into our network topology to provide inter-vlan server load balancing. With this unique offering, customers can load balance any server within our datacenter. Using a unique “predictive” algorithm, traffic will be routed to the most efficient server.
Load balancing servers not only provides load mitigation for increased system performance, but also affords redundancy in the event of system failure. Using icmp and tcp keepalives, all servers in the cluster can be monitored such that in the event a server goes down, requests are automatically and seamlessly rerouted to other servers.
Hardware Specifications
SSL Acceleration is Supported
Model Number: F5 BigIP 3400
- Max Throughput – 1Gbps
- Max Concurrent Connections – 4 million
- Max Layer 4 Requests / Sec – 110,000
- Max Layer 7 Requests / Sec – 35,000
- Max number of servers load balanced by a single VIP : 1000
Supported Load Balancing Algorithms:
- Round Robin
- Sticky Session
- Least Connect
- Custom selections available as well
