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Vic_13197
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Dec 01, 2010

Moving away from "load balancing" to application delivery

  At my company, we purchased our LTMs to simply do load balancing. But since I took the F5 class, and reading here, it's obvious that we are barely using the features that these LTMs come up. The...
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JRahm
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Dec 08, 2010
Ditto what Matt said. I also am a former customer, and came to F5 for many of the same reasons. The switch from 1024->2048 will almost surely cost organizations $$$ who don't offload ssl. This is a good starting point for discussion with your management and server sys admins, find out where their plans are leading them to handle the additional processing.