1st Generation Single CPU Server Load Balancer Before A10's AX Series
- All L4-L7 Traffic must go through a single CPU.
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2nd & 3rd Generation Multi-CPU Server Load Balancer Before A10's AX Series
- All L4-L7 Traffic can utilize multiple CPUs.
- However, when a CPU is processing instructions it must block everything other than the instructions it is processing.
- This causes delay, diminishing return and provides only limited scalability.
- Non-decoupled CPU architecture.
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