The Nortel Networks Alteon Content Director (ACD) is a global load balancing solution that delivers user-aware request-to-content routing capabilities based on Layer 3-7 protocol attributes and true user proximity.

Alteon Content Director enables content and service providers to build personalized content delivery systems for exceptional user experience.

Features and Benefits:

• Performs intelligent site selection for static and streaming media based on true user location, content intelligence, and real-time knowledge of latency, packet loss, and server health
• Performs Layer 7 load balancing / routing across thousands of sites based on patterns contained in HTTP headers, enabling site selection based on language, client access devices
• Learns Internet and intranet network conditions over time, storing information about millions of client networks to speed the lookup process

 Nortel Alteon Content Director

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