700 server switches are based on joint technology developments by Nortel Networks and IPivot. As electronic commerce becomes a major part of how companies do business, network administrators need a way of increasing the reliability and predictability of Internet and Intranet response times. Deploying a larger, more costly server is often insufficient to guarantee response times, and also creates a single point of failure.
Many potential customers are still very nervous about on-line processing.
By implementing this technology, we are making those customers feel more secure about the reliability of our systems. The new Accelar 700 server switches offer server load balancing by monitoring server response time to customer transactions in real-time. As response times from specific servers increase, new customer requests are automatically routed to different servers or servers at other sites. Since the Accelar 700 server switches are application-aware, web sites can provide premium access services by defining which applications receive priority delivery. The automatic failover features also help provide reliable server connectivity by eliminating single points of failure.