Holy Crap, There’s A Lot Of Vendors

By

tony

– November 29, 2007Posted in: Buyer's Guide, Feature Articles

I put together a list of all of the active load balancing vendors that I’m aware of, and dayom, there’s a lot.

• A10 Networks
• Array Networks (corrected)
• Barracuda Networks
• BalanceNG
• CAI Networks Web Mux
• Celestix
• Cisco, makers of LocalDirector, Distributed Director, CSS, CSM, ACE load balancers
• Citrix/Nescaler
• Coyote Point Systems
• Extreme Networks
• F5 Networks, makers of BIG-IP/3DNS
• Foundry Networks
• Juniper DX
• KEMP Technologies
• Linux Virtual Server project
• Load Balancer.org
• Nortel, makers of the Alteon line
• OpenBSD’s PF
• Pound (Open Source)
• Radware
• XGForce
• Zeus

That’s over 20 different vendors/projects that involve load balancing. If you know of even more, shoot me an email (tony at lb digest dot com).

And as always, don’t be afraid to shoot me a question about load balancing. I’ve been getting quite a few lately, and I’ve posted some of the answers so that others may hopefully benefit. You can email them, or simply throw them in a comment section of a post.

About tony

Tony is an IT instructor, pilot, scuba diver, marathon runner, and vegan.

9 Comments

1. Ed

   Posted December 10, 2007 at 6:49 PM

   Hi Tony,

   I think the ArrayNetworks link is wrong. It should be http://www.arraynetworks.net

   Thanks,
   Ed

2. tony

   Posted December 12, 2007 at 10:07 AM

   Ah, thanks. Fixed!

3. Ed

   Posted December 12, 2007 at 6:00 PM

   Tony,

   Just found out Sun has it L4-L7 application switch. Maybe it can be an addition to our list.

   http://www.sun.com/products/networking/switches/n2000/

   Ed

4. Mike Schrock

   Posted January 11, 2008 at 6:54 PM

   from their site
   SUN L4-7=”No Longer Orderable”

5. Jon Malek

   Posted January 15, 2008 at 4:45 PM

   Let’s include KEMP Technologies, Inc. into the SLB buyers guide. We’ve added more power to our product family with 8 gigaport model the LM 3500. Comes with 2000 SSL TPS and first year free support.

6. Iztok

   Posted March 16, 2008 at 12:22 PM

   “SUN L4-7=”No Longer Orderable””

   True, but Sun will be happy to sell Zeus on their hardware directly.

7. Ted Pound

   Posted June 12, 2008 at 10:08 AM

   Looking for a CSS replacement that can do header rewrite method (such as X-forwarded-proto). Problem that we need to solve is that not every page we serve up in our web application is SSL, we need to know “did this request come to this page thru SSL or not”. I don’t know much about this subject, but I’ve been tasked with finding a solution.

   Thanks!

8. Broccoli

   Posted November 5, 2009 at 12:39 PM

   Great compilation, Tony. Very useful. Thanks!

   Additional, recent discussion here:
   https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2009-November/004607.html

   The question is, of those 20+ vendors/projects, WHO does DNS redirection (for subdomains) and supports DNSSEC? And IPv6? Anyone?

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