Emerging Network Services and Appliances
Over the past years, enterprise networks have evolved significantly to handle Web traffic. Enterprise customers are realizing the benefits as a result, embracing intelligent IP-based services in addition to traditional stateless Layer 2 and Layer 3 services at the data center edge. Services such as SLB, Web caching, SSL accelerators, NAT, QoS, firewalls, and others are now common in every data center edge. These devices are either deployed adjacent to network switches or integrated as an added service inside the network switch. Often a multitude of vendors can potentially implement a particular set of functions. The following sections describe some the key IP services you can use in the process of crafting ...
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