Glossary

interface

1. A network connection.

2. A connection between two systems or devices.

3. In telephony, a shared boundary defined by common physical interconnection 

characteristics, signal characteristics, and meanings of interchanged signals. 

IOS SLB

An IOS based server load balancer that provides IP server load balancing. Using 

this feature, the network administrator defines a virtual server that represents a 

group of real servers. 

IOS SLB works in conjunction with the Catalyst 6000 family of switches.

IOS CSM

A server load balancing blade for the Catalyst 6000 family CSM (Content 

Switching Module). It provides high performance connections between network 

devices and server farms based on Layer 4 through 7 information packets. You 

can represent a group of real servers (server farm) as a single virtual server, 

balance the traffic to the server farm by selecting one of the real servers (server 

load balancing), and limit traffic to individual servers (sticky connections) and 

server farms. 

L

load balancing

An action that spreads network requests among available servers within a cluster 

of servers, based on a variety of algorithms.

LocalDirector

A server load balancer that provides features, such as SSL sticky and packet 

coloring, and supports up to 240 Mbps throughput and 18,000 connections per 

second.

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