Loadbalancer Product Trends

Posted on October 31, 2019 本文总阅读量次

So what is going on? There are mainly 4 kinds of work.

100G

Customers are trying to migrate to 100G NIC on their hardware platform.

CloudNative

Customers are trying to adopt their load balancer projects to cloud native scenario, trying to deploy load balancer in a purely containerized environment and orchestrated by K8S. That is a trend should be noticed.

IPv6

Customers are adding IPv6 support to their product. Politically this progress is pushed by the government. China is trying to build its next generation internet infrastructure and IPv6 is a big part of it. So we received a lot of requests regarding how to enable RSS or FDIR to support IPv6 traffic.

HTTPS

Customers are trying to integrate more feature to load balancer and most of them are hardware based solution for encryption and HTTPS offloading.