I've used ArrowPoint switches on a number of high profile sites (50 million hits a day +), often times replacing another load balancing product that couldn't hack it. They are an ASIC based product, so they can handle a high rate of connections per second better than a server based product can. I do not, however, use them as Layer 2 devices. I don't use any of the switch based load balancers as switches usually, I use another, usually much larger device, to aggregate the traffic to servers and uplinks. ArrowPoints are probobly my favorites, although I certainly enjoy using Alteons and Foundry load balancers. Like all load balancing products, not all work in every case. Tony On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Karyn Ulriksen wrote:
I'm wondering how other ISPs are using Arrowpoint devices in their networks. They must be successfully implemented in some networks with out many gotchas, considering that Cisco bought them. After six months of testing Arrowpoint, I ended going with another LB solutions. But I can't help but wonder what others are doing with them. Have they made enough changes in their product that I should take a look at them again?
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