Barracuda Load Balancer
Put Traffic in its Place
Incredibly advanced – Unbelievably affordable
It monitors health and performance of links in real-time and distributes traffic amongst servers for efficient use of server resources and offers server failover for high availability; it’s an ideal & affordable tool for optimizing application performance and availability. As far as comparison with other solutions available in market is concerned, Barracuda Load Balancer is one step-ahead of others in terms of performance and value as it offers advanced features of application optimization, integrated security and geo-based load balancing facility.
Serious Optimization
Barracuda Load Balancer can sense traffic and route it to most appropriate and speedy servers after optimizing it initially; further optimization are made through content caching, compressing data, pooling connection, speeding application traffic while saving valuable bandwidth and other resources. It is an ideal solution when it comes to Wide-area-networking, traffic load balancing is done smartly, and failovers amongst datacenters are lowered, higher-level of scalability and reliability for global and regional organizations.
Secure
Required protection is provided and updated in real-time and built-in integrated Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), sniffs and protects networks from worms and buffer-overflows attacks like “magic packet attacks”.
Affordable
Undoubtedly it is the best alternative available in the market offering best unmatched performance and value without per-port per-server licenses fees; this is why our customers love Barracuda Load Balancer and prefer it over other solutions.
Easy to Use
Its plug-and-play deployment features along with auto-discovery, policies for automating tasks and intuitive UI with a dashboard for clear visibility makes it easy-to-implement and use with little efforts.
Load Balancing
Besides intelligently balancing traffic load amongst regional and global datacenters, this solution uses weighted least requests, weighted round robin, adaptive scheduling and content signs along with server health checks to intelligently distribute traffic.
High Availability
On one hand, it offers failover for distributed datacenters and on the other hand, it supports server clustering for automatic failovers for high availability. It can even be set to active or passive pairs for balancing load using a hot standby.
Optimization
Optimization is done through different approaches and after understanding traffic signs like data compression (which is great option for offering faster services to smart phones, laptops and tablets), file caching, SSL offloading and connection pooling optimize server and bandwidth resources for improving overall scalability.
Features
Industry Leading Features
Smart Traffic Management
Barracuda Load Balancer effectively, intelligently and affordably optimize and balance traffic loads for high availability and better scalability for top-notch performance and offers industry-leading features.
It can be deployed at custom geo-locations and scattered location around the globe for loading balancing amongst different datacenters for higher scalability and high-availability purpose.
Designed for High Availability
High Availability Configuration
Barracuda Load balancing offers failover amongst sites using geo-rules and GSLB and along with its cluster based servers for HA, it can also be configured into active/passive configurations for more and reliable High Availability.
Service Monitor
Service monitor displays status of different services and real servers via intuitive web UI. It removes downed servers from the server pool automatically and information received via panel is useful for guiding administrators.
Auto Discover
Barracuda Load Balancer is smart, it can sense content via header values, cookies, domain name and URL and later rout traffic according to content types.
Content Routing
After recognizing content through its supporting parameters like header text, URL patterns, domain name or previous cookies, it routes content to appropriate links.
Ridiculously Fast
Data Compression
HTML content received from the servers is automatically compressed into GZIP format, which is later de-compressed by user’s browser before displaying.
Content Caching
Caching redundant content/traffic is one of the methods deployed by Barracuda Load Balancer for saving bandwidth and unnecessary time delays in retrievals from the servers.
Packed with Features
Scheduling Policies
Barracuda Load Balancer offer scheduling multiple features like: Weighted Least Connection (WLC), server weighting and Weighted Round Robin (WRR).
Multiple Deployment Modes
Route-path is supported for flexibility whereas bridge-path for deployment without changing IP infrastructure and Direct Server Return for high-bandwidth services.
Intrusion Prevention System
In order to keep the network safe from DoS attacks along with fresh/unknown exploits; Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) is built-in with Barracuda Load Balancer and it is re-energized in real-time through constant updates.
Web Interface
Faster navigation to all features is achieved by offering an intuitive web-based UI dashboard facility; which offers clear visibility into system and server status and activities to the administrator.
Models
| 95 Mbps Maximum Throughput |
| 10 Real Servers Supported |
| 1U Mini Rackmount Chasis |
| 1 Amps Input Current |
| 2 x 10/100 Ethernet Connections |
| Layer 4 Load Balancing |
| Direct Server Return |
| Intrusion Prevention |
| 950 Mbps Maximum Throughput |
| 35 Real Servers Supported |
| 1U Mini Rackmount Chasis |
| 1.2 Amps Input Current |
| 2 x Gigabit Ethernet Connections |
| Layer 4 Load Balancing |
| Direct Server Return |
| Intrusion Prevention |
| 500 TPS SSL Offloading/Acceleration |
| High Availability |
| VLAN |
| Layer 7 Load Balancing |
| Cookie Persistence |
| SIP Call ID Persistence |
| SSL Offloading |
| Content Routing |
| SNMP/API |
| 1 Gbps Maximum Throughput |
| 50 Real Servers Supported |
| 1U Mini Rackmount Chasis |
| 1.4 Amps Input Current |
| 2 x Gigabit Ethernet Connections |
| Layer 4 Load Balancing |
| Direct Server Return |
| Intrusion Prevention |
| 4000 TPS SSL Offloading/Acceleration |
| High Availability |
| VLAN |
| Layer 7 Load Balancing |
| Cookie Persistence |
| SIP Call ID Persistence |
| SSL Offloading |
| Content Routing |
| SNMP/API |
| Programming Interface/API |
| Global Server Load Balancing |
| HTTP Compression |
| Content Caching |
| 4 Gbps Maximum Throughput |
| 250 Real Servers Supported |
| 1U Mini Rackmount Chasis |
| 1.8 Amps Input Current |
| 12 x Gigabit Ethernet Connections |
| Layer 4 Load Balancing |
| Direct Server Return |
| Intrusion Prevention |
| 15000 TPS SSL Offloading/Acceleration |
| High Availability |
| VLAN |
| Layer 7 Load Balancing |
| Cookie Persistence |
| SIP Call ID Persistence |
| SSL Offloading |
| Content Routing |
| SNMP/API |
| Programming Interface/API |
| Global Server Load Balancing |
| HTTP Compression |
| Content Caching |
| Link Bonding(LACP) |
Administration
Deployment on Your Terms
Offering flexibility in deployment choices is one of the main aims of Barracuda Load balancer; route-path, bridge-path and Direct Server Return are best choices for bandwidth-intensive content delivery. The product can also be deployed to geo and regional-based datacenters for higher-level scalability and high availability.
Route-Path
It offers flexibility by distributing load balancers servers downstream from Barracuda Load Balancer.
Bridge-Path
It is one of the easiest models to configure; all it takes is to place the product in-line with their IP infrastructure and later add required servers without changing their IP addresses.
Direct Server Return
In order to keep traffic and speed in control, low-bandwidth requests are handed off to servers through Direct Server Return (DSR); later the servers directly respond to these requests through their won interfaces outside the Barracuda Load Balancer.
Set it and Forget it
Fast Content Routing. Faster Administration
• Configuration of Barracuda Load Balancer is easy and made through intuitive web-based UI
• For easy and quick viewing, diagnosing, application setting and configuration and rules for load balancing, Screens are designed accordingly.
• Adding servers/services manually or via auto-discover is easy and quick for the administrators
Faster. Easier. Simpler.
Performance at Glance
Clear visibility into system and network performance and availability are achieved through state-of-the-art statistical reporting tools provided with the products.
Diagnose Problems Quickly
Monitoring health & performance of servers and services is ease and available quickly.
Automated Backup
In order to keep faster restoration point at hand, backup configuration is automatically created easily.