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Design and Implementation of a Layer-7 MPLS-Based Web Switching Architecture

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Overview During recent years web servers evolved from providing simple, static content to offering different services and a variety of dynamically generated pages and objects. Consequently, scalability and load-balancing have emerged as main requirements for modern web farms. A common solution is based on placing a Web Switch in front of the web servers; the switch acts as a dispatcher that redirects user requests according to desired criteria. This paper describes a novel web switching architecture, based on the MPLS technology and on Open-Source software. The switching decision is primarily made considering Layer-7 information, thus achieving flexible content-based routing to the most appropriate server.

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Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2005
Format	White Papers
Topics	Switching, MPLS

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