Definitions for "Load Balancer"
Keywords:  oracleas, radware, alteon, bigip, wsd
server computer responsible for allocating requests among multiple servers in order to equalize the loads handled by each server. For example, F5 Network's BIG-IP Controller and Radware's Web Server Director (WSD).
a hardware device or software program that delegates network requests to a number of servers, such as in a server farm or server cluster
a network device used to create a virtual Web server that is actually a group of real servers
Load Balancer improves the performance, reliability and scalability of TCP/IP based network services such as web, mail, news, ftp and database protocols, through a combination of content-aware traffic management, performance and health monitoring, and au
a valuable component in building a scalable, highly available AR System infrastructure