Archive for the ‘HTTP’ Category

What Is a Web Application Firewall?

December 11th, 2008 by Ivan Pepelnjak


If you have been visited by a friendly Cisco sales engineer recently, you might have already heard about the ACE Web Application Firewall (WAF). If you're curious enough to start investigating on your own, you might have stumbled across the WAF product description on Cisco's Web site, which tells you ...

A Quick Comparison of DDC Site-Selection Methods

August 12th, 2008 by Mitja Robas


When setting up a distributed data center (DDC), the architect has to decide which method will be used for site selection to distribute client traffic between the sites. The distribution is done using global server load balancing (GSLB), typically via HTTP redirect, DNS-based site selection or route health injection (RHI) ...