ITD – Intelligent Traffic Director (Part 2)

Cisco® Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD) is an innovative solution to bridge the performance gap between a multi-terabit switch and gigabit servers and appliances. ITD is much superior than legacy solutions such as PBR, ECMP, Port-channel, etc for service appliances and servers.  ITD is allowing customers to achieve massive CAPEX and OPEX savings. Here is a table comparing with some of the features.

Customers are using ITD for a multitude of use-cases.

Load-balance traffic to 256 servers of 10Gbps each.

Load-balance to cluster of Firewalls. ITD is much superior than PBR.

Scale up NG IPS and WAF by load-balancing to standalone devices.

Scale the WAAS / WAE solution.

Scale the VDS-TC (video-caching) solution.

Replace ECMP/Port-channel to avoid re-hashing. ITD is resilient.

Documentation:

ITD Part -1: Part -1

Slides: ITD feature overview presentation

White paper: At a glance

Demo: Demonstration of ITD

ITD with Network Monitoring device:ITD with NAM

ITD with Web application firewall: ITD with Imperva

ITD config guide: ITD config guide

Email Query or feedback:ask-itd@external.cisco.com