Application delivery delays, inefficiencies, and failures can cost millions of dollars in terms of wasted budgets, damage to company reputation, system and application downtime, legal liability, and lost opportunities. The BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is an application delivery networking system that provides the most intelligent and adaptable solution to secure, optimize, and deliver applications, enabling organizations to effectively and competitively run their business. BIG-IP LTM is the only system that features a set of unified application infrastructure services that deliver total control, vision, and flexibility into application security, performance, and delivery. The result? Greater business agility and successful outcomes for the lifeblood of today's organization -- the application itself. It's not just about stopping attacks -- it's also about simultaneously serving legitimate users. BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager delivers the best of both worlds, providing a suite of security services that play a significant role in bolstering network and application security. From adding powerful network and protocol level security to filtering application attacks, BIG-IP LTM is deployed at a critical gateway to your most precious resources -- the applications that run your business. The unequalled intelligence of BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager provides a powerful solution for organizations looking to improve their application performance, increase the capacity of their existing infrastructure, lower infrastructure costs, and accelerate their applications. BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager removes single points of failure and virtualizes the network and applications using industry-leading L7 intelligence. BIG-IP LTM includes rich static and dynamic load balancing methods, including Dynamic Ratio, Least Connections, and Observed Load Balancing, which tracks dynamic performance levels of servers in a group. This ensures that all sites are always on, more scalable, and easier to manage than ever before.
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