We describe our xBalancer, and the load balancing function in our other devices, as a "Monitoring Load Balancer." Sometimes the question arises, why the "monitoring" qualifier? Isn't a load balancer just a load balancer? Can't I use xBalancer in place of much more expensive load balancers that balance application traffic to a pool of servers? I'm thinking of balancing Web traffic to a pool of Web servers, or database traffic to a pool of database servers, for example.
The answer is that a monitoring load balancer performs a very different function than an application load balancer. Both...
Here's the abstract and main topics from my lecture and presentation at the High-Speed Network Monitoring workshop at the University of Bradford (This event is part of UKPEW 2011, the 27th Annual UK Performance Engineering Workshop). (see also the press release 
