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Content Delivery Networks: Web Switching for Security, Availability, and Speed

Chapter 11: Global Server Load Balancing

Read Part 1 - Uses for GSLB: how it works, techniques for implementation, and design goals for geographic load balancing
Read Part 2 - TCP Handshake Footraces, Case Studies and Products available.

May 22, 2002

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Content Delivery Networks: Web Switching for Security, Availability, and Speed

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Here is our 2-part chapter excerpt from the book Content Delivery Networks: Web Switching for Security, Availability, and Speed, by Scot Hull; ISBN: 0-07-219046-9 (McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media, Feb. 2002) 472 pages; $55.

Our series looks at Chapter 11: Global Server Load Balancing.



Learn how to accelerate network-based delivery of rich applications and content. Author Scot Hull describes the purpose of Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB), the technologies involved, packet loss and its impact and major problems with DNS-based solutions. Chapter 11 examines the many uses for GSLB and discusses some of the more subtle aspects to globalizing content.

To view each excerpt, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed. To obtain a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.05, click on one of the files available from IT Pro Downloads:

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Read Part 1 - Uses for GSLB: how it works, techniques for implementation, and design goals for geographic load balancing
Read Part 2 - TCP Handshake Footraces, Case Studies and Products available.



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