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BIG-IP^® Global Traffic Manager^™

Disaster Recovery

When users try to access a data center that is overloaded or unreachable, BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager automatically and seamlessly directs them to a secondary data center. The user isn't even aware of the switch: they could be accessing a data center at corporate headquarters, in another city, or on another continent. This capability makes BIG-IP GTM especially important for enterprises that need to maintain operations in the event of a natural disaster, power failure, or any other large-scale service disruption.

SOA Application Management

Distributed applications may rely on several Web servers, application servers, and databases that work in parallel. BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager automates the process of tracking and managing the dependencies between individual application services, helping to achieve high availability, persistence, and maintenance for these applications. It eliminates the guesswork, errors, and inefficiencies related to manual management, so you have a holistic framework to manage all application services across multiple sites.

Global Business Criteria Management

Global enterprises often have data centers spread throughout the world. So why send a user in Hong Kong to the Dallas data center when there's one in Singapore? BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager uses topology-based load balancing to inspect a user's IP and determine the most efficient data center. The topology could be based on continent, country, ISP, or custom IP subnet level.

BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager is available as a standalone version, and also as a product module for BIG-IP.

BIG-IP Product Modules:

• Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
• Global Traffic Manager (GTM)
• Link Controller (LC)
• Application Security Manager (ASM)
• WebAccelerator (WA)