Load balancers keeps network traffic moving for North Wales Police
North Wales Police (NWP) has replaced its legacy Windows network load balancing software (WNLB) to increase the performance and high-availability of its mission-critical Microsoft Exchange 2010, Lync and SharePoint applications.
North Wales Police (NWP) has replaced its legacy Windows network load balancing software (WNLB) to increase the performance and high-availability of its mission-critical Microsoft Exchange 2010, Lync and SharePoint applications.
NWP was one of the first police forces in the UK to deploy Microsoft SharePoint and use the MS Lync platform for managing unified communications after it migrated to MS Exchange 2010 when it was launched. However, it had experienced problems when using WNLB software.
Despite its popularity, there are some limitations to using WNLB for MS Exchange 2010, explained Andy Cunnah, innovation and business development manager at NWP.
The new KEMP server load balancers have intelligent Layer 7 content switching that distributes user traffic across multiple web and application servers to achieve the best network and infrastructure performance. If a server becomes inaccessible, the balancer will take it off-line and automatically re-route and reconnect users to other functioning servers to guarantee application uptime.