[29965] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [load balancing] Arrowpoint Load Balancing Devices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tony bourke)
Mon Jul 10 20:37:27 2000
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:30:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: tony bourke <tony@vegan.net>
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I've used ArrowPoint switches on a number of high profile sites (50
million hits a day +), often times replacing another load balancing
product that couldn't hack it. They are an ASIC based product, so they
can handle a high rate of connections per second better than a server
based product can.
I do not, however, use them as Layer 2 devices. I don't use any of the
switch based load balancers as switches usually, I use another, usually
much larger device, to aggregate the traffic to servers and uplinks.
ArrowPoints are probobly my favorites, although I certainly enjoy using
Alteons and Foundry load balancers.
Like all load balancing products, not all work in every case.
Tony
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Karyn Ulriksen wrote:
> I'm wondering how other ISPs are using Arrowpoint devices in their networks.
> They must be successfully implemented in some networks with out many
> gotchas, considering that Cisco bought them. After six months of testing
> Arrowpoint, I ended going with another LB solutions. But I can't help but
> wonder what others are doing with them. Have they made enough changes in
> their product that I should take a look at them again?
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Best regards,
>
> Karyn Ulriksen
> Director of Network Operations
> PublicHost, A SiteStream Company
> 22 Mauchly, Suite 200
> Irvine, California 92618 USA
> Phone: (949) 743-2000
> email: kulriksen@publichost.com
> URL: http://www.publichost.com
>
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