Showing posts with label ADC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ADC. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

App Delivery Controller (ADC) vs Load Balancer

ADCs are load balancers on steroids (SSL offloading, enhanced compression / bandwidth utilization, WAF, reverse proxy, DDoS protections), while dedicated load balancers perform pure round robin transaction sharing.

For cloud-based apps, elastic load balancers (ELB) maybe consumed as a dedicated service (along w/ separate services: WAF, reverse proxy), while on premise Web apps should be leveraging an ADC for pure consistency & economy of scale reasons.