The Internet Traffic Management Report from Collaborative Research offers the first in-depth view of the rapidly growing market for traffic management, load balancing, and traffic distribution solutions that are critical to dealing with the Internet's rising volume.
Traffic managers turn relatively flaky Web server software into rock solid information systems.
They let sites scale to handle increasing load, and they manage the distribution and optimization of global traffic to multiple, distributed, replicated servers. In a very real sense, traffic management products make the Internet run as much as Sun's servers or Cisco's routers. The Internet Traffic Management report explains the problems created by increasing traffic loads, the causes of Internet traffic delays and stalls. The report reviews the strategies and products of the vendors contending in this rapidly growing market, and analyzes the needs, successes and roadblocks of the early adopter users of the products. It details current and forthcoming uses for ITM products, projects the market volume through 2002, and offers comparative insights on all products and vendors.