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Major Changes for Big-IP: Page 4 of 4

Although a developer can embed SNMP functionality into an application, this is almost never done because of the complexity of the task--even if using a development library specifically designed for the task.

That's what makes the ability to utilize Web services so exciting. With Web services you can give the load balancer more accurate information regarding to which servers traffic should be routed, based on specific, application-level performance indicators that are decided upon by the people who know best what the application can handle: the developers.