What Does BIG-IP Stand For?
In February I will have been with F5 for 9 years. When I originally joined I never imagined that I would be with this funky little start up for this long nor did I really imagine that F5 would be wh...
Published Dec 30, 2005
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Actually Intakhab, it does a whole lot more than that. Even when the product was first rolled out to the market in late 1996 and it was just a load balancer customers had more choices than just sending traffic to the least loaded server.
Today BIG-IP performs a myriad of functions that drive application availability, optimization and security. If we haven't thought of what you need, you can also program it yourself by using iRules to manipulate traffic in all sorts of useful ways. Finally, yes - it does also perform load balancing between servers real or virtual, data centers or WAN links. I think we still include connecting to a least loaded server as one of the basic load balancing modes available.
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