Using Hardware Load Balancer for OCS 2007 Front-end Server

To increase the scalability and higher redundancy for OCS Front-end server, we have to use hardware load balancer. Below is some of the support hardware offerings from F5, Cisco, Foundry, Nortel, and WebMux.

http://www.f5.com/solutions/deployment/index_lcs.html

http://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides/microsoft-ocs-ltm94-dg.pdf

http://www.foundrynet.com/pdf/wp-ms-office-comm-serv-2007-load-bal.pdf

http://www.cainetworks.com/papers/webmux/lcs2005.htm

http://blogs.technet.com/uc/archive/2007/03/30/load-balancers-with-live-communications-server-2005.aspx

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/communicationsserver/FX011526591033.aspx