Alteon Content Director

Alteon Content Director

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Alteon Content Director delivers user-aware request-to-content routing and global load-balancing based on Layer 3-7 protocol attributes and true user proximity, in addition to network and server status. Alteon Content Director enables content and service providers to build personalized content delivery systems for exceptional user experience. Layer 4 - 7 Technology

Key Features:

• Performs intelligent site selection for static and streaming media based on true user location, content intelligence, and real-time knowledge of latency, packet loss, and server health.
• Performs Layer 7 load balancing / routing across thousands of sites based on patterns contained in HTTP headers, enabling site selection based on language, client access devices, etc.
• Enhances content delivery networks (CDNs), global server load balancing services, global application and subdomain load-balancing, streaming content delivery, network optimization, and high-availability applications.
• Learns Internet and intranet network conditions over time, storing information about millions of client networks to speed the lookup process.
• Supports site persistence based on HTTP cookies, essential for premium eBusiness applications