With the advant of e-commerce and Internet-accessible application, more and more enterprisesand service providers rely on data center services to grow their businesses. Content switching solutions, such as load balancing, caching, and disaster recovery for applications, are essential data techology and a key to helping businesses run inanefficient and redundant fashion. Understandingcontent switching solutions is a must fore network designers, engineers, and adminstrators who need to scale their networks to meet the demands of their business.
Designing Content Switching Solutions helps you understand content switching solutions using Cisco content switching products. You'll get a thorough grounding in the theories and concepts behind content switching and then examine specific solutions through case studies. The case studies in Designing ContentSwitching Solutions emulate real-world scenarios for the solution covering some of the common features and functionality deployed inproduction networks.

Chapter 1 Introduction to Server Load Balancing
Chapter 2 Introductionto the Cisco Content Service Switch
Chapter 3 Introductionto the Cisco Content Switching Module
Chapter 4 Layer 7 Load Balancing andContent Customization
Chapter 5 Firewall Load balancing
Chapter 6 Transparent and Proxy Cache Load Balancing
Chapter 7 Load Balancing Streaming Video Servers
Chapter 8 Virtual Private Network Load Balancing
Chapter 9 Content Switching Device Migrations
Chapter 10 SSL Offloading
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