Glossary of Terms

A

• aFleX
  ...is a scripting tool that is built into the AX Series Server Load Balancers. It is based on a standard scripting language, TCL, enabling the load balancer to...
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• Application Acceleration
  ...consists of methods that can be used to improve the performance of applications over networks to ensure that application data is delivered as quickly as possible...
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• Application Bandwidth Management
  ...consists of a set of Quality of Service (QoS) tools used to handle and prioritize data traffic by application type. In doing so, bandwidth-intensive applications, such as...
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• Application Delivery Controller
  ...(ADCs) are devices that are typically set in front of a web farm within a datacenter...
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B

• Bandwidth
  ...refers to the width of a communications channel, and it may be helpful to envision bandwidth as a hose or pipe that carries data communications instead of water...
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• Bandwidth Management
  ...is the practice of effectively allocating the available resources within an enterprise's communications channel in order to optimize the speed of mission-critical communications...
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I

• Inter-Process_Communication
  ...is a messaging sub-system that can enable data exchange between processors...
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L

• Link Load Balancing
  ...is the method of equally distributing network traffic functions across an array of links...
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O

• Operating System
  ...is the software program that runs on a computer or mobile device and handles the most fundamental tasks...
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R

• RAM Caching
  ...optimizes network transactions for the user, network and web servers...
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S

• Server Load Balancer
  ...A server load balancer is a hardware or virtual software appliance that   distributes the demand for server and application processing power across an   array of servers...
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• SIP Load Balancing
  ...scales and optimizes a SIP infrastructure. SIP registration and SIP proxy traffic can be handled in separate service groups, whose servers can be monitored with...
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• SoftAX
  ...is a full-featured, software-only version of A10 Networks' line of AX Series Application Delivery Controllers...
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• SSL Offloading
  ...is a commonly-used protocol that helps to ensure the security of HTTP traffic traveling across the Internet...
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T

• Traffic Monitoring
  ...also known as network monitoring, is the method of studying the incoming and outgoing traffic on a computer network via specialized hardware and/or software...
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• Traffic Shaping
  ...also known as packet shaping, Quality of Service (QoS) or bandwidth management, is the manipulation and  prioritization of network traffic to reduce the impact of heavy users or machines from effecting other users...
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