What is WAN Link Multi-Homing?
WAN Link Load Balancing allows you to configure the Nortel Application Switch to balance user session traffic among a pool of available WAN Links. To handle the high volume of data on the Internet, corporations are using more than one Internet Service provider (ISP) as a way to increase reliability of Internet connections. Such enterprises with more than one ISP are referred to as being multi-homed. In addition to reliability, a multi-homed network architecture enables enterprises to distribute load among multiple connections and to provide more optimal routing. Nortel Application Switch software provides a solution for enterprises that wish to optimize utilization of Internet connectivity. This comprehensive solution helps enterprises to direct traffic over the best connection to maximize performance, maximize corporate bandwidth investments, and effectively remove existing deployment and management barriers for multihomed networks.
