An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
Traditional hardware load balancers are physical network devices that direct incoming traffic to multiple endpoints in the corporate data center. As a result, they are inflexible and work only on-premises.
Avi Networks offers a new class of software-defined load balancer. Avi separates the load balancer control plane (centralized management) from the data plane (lightweight software load balancers that can go wherever applications reside).
As a result, Avi can replace existing hardware load balancers in data centers or provide load balancing across multiple clouds in a hybrid IT environment.
In addition, Avi offers a service mesh controller that provides load balancing for Kubernetes container clusters. As service mesh technology matures, this capability is likely to be the most important of the three for Avi.
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