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<img src="/icons/spider_gray.svg" alt="/icons/spider_gray.svg" width="40px" /> A Network Appliance is a dedicated hardware device with pre-installed software for specific networking services
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Different Types of Network Appliances
Load Balancers
- Distribute network/application traffic across multiple servers
- Enhance server efficiency and prevent overload
- Ensure redundancy and reliability
- Perform continuous health checks
- Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) offer advanced functionality
- Essential for high-demand environments and high-traffic websites
Proxy Servers
- Acts as intermediaries between clients and servers
- Provide content caching, requests filtering, and login management
- Enhance request speed and reduce bandwidth usage
- Add a security layer and enforce network utilization policies
- Protect against DDoS attacks
- Facilitate load balancing and user authentication
- Handle data encryption and ensure compliance with data sovereignty laws
Sensors
- Monitor, detect, and analyze network traffic and data flow
- Identify unusual activities, security breaches, and performance issues