June 22, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Speedera Networks Inc., (speedera.com) a provider of on-demand distributed application and content delivery services, today announced that F-Secure Corporation, a provider of centrally managed security solutions, has selected Speedera’s Traffic Balancer service to ensure global load balancing between its multiple data centers in Europe and North America.
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The agreement eliminates F-Secure’s need for buying and managing its own load balancing hardware, and strengthens its download distribution system for updating its customers’ software. Traffic Balancer has a dedicated worldwide network of strategically located global traffic managers and network probes.
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Traffic Balances’ routing decisions are based on configurable policies and real-time network, server, and application health criteria such as network latency, link-to-link outages, packet loss, CPU utilitization, and others. It also uses application server management data extracted from F-Secure’s download system to increase its load balancing decisions. When an origin site failure occurs, Traffic Balancer ensures that traffic “fails over” gracefully to the remaining origin sites without overloading them.
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“When a virus hits, the cost of even one hour of downtime can be enormous – time and money that no business or individual can afford,” says Speedera President and CEO Ajit Gupta. “The combination of F-Secure and Speedera’s forces will bring one of the world’s leading security solutions to an ever-growing audience of computer users everywhere.”
