In the previous section, we covered the HTTP protocol in detail. You now understand the URLs, methods, and cookies. In Layer 7 load balancing, the SLB device proxies the client's TCP connection and ...

Werner Vogels, Amazon Web Services chief technology officer, in New York this morning. (Photo: Amazon) Werner Vogels, Amazon Web Services’s chief technology officer, this morning announced a new ...

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Coyote Point Systems has a solution. The Equalizer E450 is a 1U rack-mount Layer 7 load-balancing switch that selects servers according to user-defined load-balancing criteria. It takes just ...

Layer 7 load balancing devices, also known as Web or application switches, can drill down into URLs or HTTP headers to direct requests. An emerging technology, deep packet inspection, allows these ...

This morning, F5 Networks is introducing a new load balancer, LineRate Point, and a volume licensing plan. Both are aimed at extending the F5 Synthesis framework to let all applications receive ...

Layer 7 switching isn’t just for Web servers anymore. Two companies are working to integrate the technology into voice-over-IP networks for corporations and service providers. The ability to route ...

TCP is the building block for Layer 7 protocols, such as the HTTP. This chapter will examine the interaction between HTTP and TCP and how client and server communication at the TCP and HTTP layers are ...