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Why you still need layer 7 persistence

Tony Bourke of the Load Balancing Digest points out that mega proxies are largely dead. Very true. He then wonders whether layer 7 persistence is really all that important today, as it w...
Published Sep 16, 2008
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BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
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internet
layer 7 switching
load balancing
management
persistence
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