Traffic Management and Load Balancing Solutions by Abtech Systems

Steer Your Network through Traffic with Abtech

Networking has evolved dramatically since the days that single servers ran the business. The demand for availability and functionality is critical and downtime -- whether planned or unplanned -- is not acceptable.  As network traffic within your company’s network or web-centric application peaks, so does the strain on your server.

Each request to access applications built upon web-based technology or information from a server can reach a point where the server cannot handle any more traffic, and it crashes. You can avoid system crashes by implementing a server load balancing solution.

Server load balancing distributes processing and data activity evenly across a network so that no single device is overwhelmed.

Server load balancing is also a way to add resilience and avoid accessibility problems. It is especially important for networks where it's difficult to predict the number of requests that will be issued to a server.  Busy web sites or organizations with high traffic volume typically deploy two or more web servers in a load balancing scheme. If one server starts to get swamped or fails, requests are shifted to another server with more capacity.

Traffic management takes load balancing to a higher level. Where basic load balancing treats all incoming traffic equally, traffic management examines each transaction and targets it based on a set of implementation-specific rules.