What is Application Delivery Controllers?
An application delivery controller also called as ADC, which is a computer network device in datacenter, and it is also a part of an Application Delivery Network or so-called ADN, which helps in performing some common tasks, like lowering the load from the web servers. ADCs are actually placed between the firewall and the web farm.
Benefits:-
- ADC helps application adapt to the networks as well as protocols which ensures that applications are always made available and don’t show any kind of security risks.
- ADC solutions provides high availability by making the use of clustering.
- It offers the ability to provide built-in Web Application Firewall which is basically is used to protect from the targeted web attacks.
Features:-
- ADC platforms provides the Layer 3/4 as well as Layer 7 load balancing functionality and the distribution of traffic.
- It provides the ability to determine about the health of physical server.
- It offers the condensed of TCP sessions which are basically made up with the physical server.