To ensure the quality of the customer experience and to prevent customers from abandoning your site, a successful e-commerce site must immediately scale service in response to sudden surges in traffic.
Scalability means more than increasing device performance and link bandwidth.
In designing an e-commerce solution, the connection rate and the ability to support a large volume of simultaneous customer transactions is equally important. Building for large transaction volume scaling introduces new network infrastructure demands that require a shift in network design and practice. Enterprises must also look to their e-commerce infrastructure to expand operations to reach new customers, markets and channels. The Cisco LocalDirector ensures continuous, high availability of content and applications with proven techniques for actively managing servers in a distributed environment. This solution reduces the risk of network and system delays, delivering more consistent network service and content availability.