Web infrastructure equipment is fundamentally different from traditional networking devices like switches and routers. While networking devices focus on switching individual frames and packets at ultra-high speeds, Web switches focus on tracking and processing Web sessions. The changing nature of Web applications, protocols and content delivery mechanisms mandates a radically different approach to Web switch architectures.
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