ITD (Intelligent Traffic Director) has been selected in Top 3 finalists in the Best of Interop 2015 Data Center category. ITD Delivers:

• $2 Billion TAM disruptive technology:This technology innovation disrupts today's$2 Billion TAM for load-balancers, redirection and clustering solutions
• 100x Scale improvement:The high-end load-balancers today can handle about 200Gbps traffic. ITD can load-balance 20Tbps traffic.
• 1000x cost-savings for customers:A 40Gbps L4 load-balancer costs about$200k to customers. ITD provides multi-Tbps load-balancing for a fraction of the price.
• Zero Latency:ITD performs load-balancing, redirection, NAT and access control, all in one-clock cycle in hardware, hence it introduces zero latency.
• 10x OPEX savings: Order of magnitude reduction in configuration, and ease of deployment
• Overall CAPEX savings: Wiring, Power, Rackspace and Cost savings
• 70+ customers interested in deploying within 1 month of shipping.
• 10x High availability: N + M redundancy, health-monitoring and automatic failure handling
• $15 Billion install-base can be leveraged:The technology has humongous market capture potential. It works on existing hardware.$15 Billion install-base of Nexus switches is able to use this technology.
• 30+ patentable ideas:ITD has unprecedented innovations.

Cisco ITD (Intelligent Traffic Director) is a hardware based multi-Tbps Layer 4 load balancing, traffic steering and clustering solution on Nexus 9K/7K/6K/5K series of switches. It supports IP-stickiness, resiliency, NAT, (EFT), VIP, health monitoring, sophisticated failure handling policies, N+M redundancy, IPv4, IPv6, VRF, weighted load-balancing, bi-directional flow-coherency, and IPSLA probes including DNS. There is no service module or external appliance needed.

ITD has a lot of different types of use-cases. Some of these are:

1. Create a multi-Tbps Firewall
2. Create a multi-Tbps Video-cache
3. Firewall/IPS/IDS/WAF load-balancing.
4. Web Server load-balancing
5. Application server load-balancing
6. Replace WCCP. Redirect and Load-balancing traffic to Web-cache, WAAS, WAE
7. Traffic steering to VDS/video-cache/Professional Media Network devices
8. Load-balance to Hadoop/Big-data cluster.
9. load-balancing to mobile equipment
10. Load-balancing to Layer 7 load-balancers
11. Replace legacy features such as ECMP, port-channel, PBR, etc

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