Re: load balancer models and performance

Ed Toro <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:05:06 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.load-balancing.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
My apologies for suggesting F5 capped raw throughput. I was probably 
thinking of compression and SSL. I'm not sure if Cisco or NetScaler do 
this. If not, I bet they are looking at it. At the end of the day, the 
hardware is a commodity and a small part of the cost of delivering the 
appliance. It makes more sense to sell the customer a big appliance they 
can upgrade performance on easily for more revenue down the road. If 
they have to rip out a physical appliance then they are less likely to  
exert the effort. It also opens the door to other vendors if they have 
to do a physical replacement.


Kirk Bauer wrote:
> The only two items where performance is limited by license on a BIG-IP is total compressed throughput (you get 50Mbps and can unlock more) and SSL transactions per second (you get 500 and can unlock more).
>   

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