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Microsoft Network Load Balancer

Microsoft NLB users: Free upgrade to Central Dispatch! Special offer until October 31, 2008.

Why upgrade to Central Dispatch?

Central Dispatch is the only commercial windows native traffic manager. Central Dispatch is a compelling, easy, and risk-free upgrade enabling high-availability, adding application health checking, intelligent load balancing, flexible session persistence as well as other security features.

Central Dispatch also includes a flexible and powerful API that allows custom tailoring of load balancing decisions for each unique web architecture. It provides greater depth and breadth than other traffic management solutions.

Central Dispatch adds the following capabilities over Microsoft NLB:

• Application health checks verify that a server is functioning correctly,
• Multiple session persistence methods based on source IP address, observed cookies, inserted cookies, SSL session ID; all methods can be applied selectively to just the requests that need them.
• Security checking, testing that requests are well formed and that individual clients and groups of clients are not overloading the service with large volumes of traffic.
• SSL decryption and/or offloading.
• Connection draining, making it easy to manage and maintain servers.
• Powerful traffic visualization, centralized logging and cluster-wide diagnostics.
• Service Level Monitoring to monitor the end-user response time and adjust traffic management policies accordingly.
• Inter-node communication based on UDP that’s extremely lightweight on both network and nodes.
• No additional hardware costs
  

Customers who have benefited from Central Dispatch:

• AT&T
• Deluxe
• Verizon
• Siemens
• USA.NET

Terms and Conditions

This offer applies to new Central Dispatch customers whose purchase is used to replace NLB. Central Dispatch must be shipped on or before October 31, 2008.

To evaluate Central Dispatch, please complete the following form and click the "Submit " button. Download information will follow the succesful completion of this form.

If you experience any difficulties submitting this application, please e-mail us at support@resonate.com .

• Central Dispatch White Paper

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