From an industry insider--a close look at high-performance,end-to-end switching solutionsLoad balancers are fast becoming an indispensable solution forhandling the huge traffic demands of the Web. Their ability tosolve a multitude of network and server bottlenecks in the Internetage ranges from dramatic improvements in server farm scalability toremoving the firewall as a network bottleneck. This book provides adetailed, up-to-date, technical discussion of this fast-growing,multibillion dollar market, covering the full spectrum oftopics--from server and firewall load balancing to transparentcache switching to global server load balancing. In the process,the author delivers insight into the way new technologies aredeployed in network infrastructure and...