Transforming Cisco switches into highly scalable zero latency load balancers! Cisco Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD) does exactly that and much more!
Cisco ITD has been selected as Best of Interop 2015 finalist in the Data Center Category. Finalists were chosen from nine categories including Data Center, Mobility, SDN and Cloud Technologies.
Cisco Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD) is an innovative solution to bridge the performance gap between a multi-terabit switch and gigabit servers and appliances. It is a hardware based multi-terabit layer 4 load-balancing, traffic steering and clustering solution on the Nexus 9K,7K,6K,5K series of switches. Customers do not have to buy any new hardware. It works on all the existing hardware, linecards and supervisors.
Here are some of the quotes from customers, account teams, industry analysts and architects:
“Great milestone Samar Sharma, Mouli Vytla, Rajendra Kumar Thirumurthi and team! We are very grateful for the work you guys did with pioneering and driving this new solution!”
“ITD helped us scale to 1Tbps of cache traffic in single Nexus 7700 ”
“This feature seems almost too good to be true! I am very excited about it.”
“Customers really enjoyed the time and the subject. They said it was the best presentation of the week at Cisco Live”
“Turns out we likely have a far superior solution in ITD that we can bring to the table. One of our web space principles is ‘state is the enemy of scale’ and ITD aligns very well with this mentality without sacrificing too much flexibility or control. It is still early in our conversations but we are confident that ITD will play a strategic role for scaling services”
Click to find out more! You can also visit Cisco Interop Booth at Interop Las Vegas to find out about Cisco ITD Solution!
- ITD Blog
- Slides: ITD feature overview
- White paper: At a glance
Thanks for the info.
Can’t check the Demo. What sort of privilege is required?
Regards,
Murilo
Hi Murilo, Thanks for pointing that out, I think the link is not working, I will fix and update the article soon. Regards Avni
is Cisco Nexus 9K going to support ITD ? the current docs show ITD supported on 5k,6k and 7k.
Yes, Nexus 9k is soon going to support ITD. Please stay tuned for details.
Great news. Is it supported on Nexus 5600? I am working on opportunity wherein customer is having similar requirement wherein ITD can fit in.
Hi Satish, thank you! yes ITD is supported , you will need L3 daughter card support on the Nexus 5k/6k. Please email our itd mailers nxos-itd-eng@cisco.com , we can discuss your usecase in more detail.
Congrats, ITD and UCS Teams! #BestOfInterop
Way to go team ITD!
Great networking loadbalancing service directly available on switch. Great work!!
ITD looks very promising for us, especially as we look to migrate off of ACE for L4-based load balancing. We’re not interested in purchasing NetScaler – but if we could leverage ITD, and get some L7 probe capability (basic functionality… send an HTTP GET, expect a result code), we could continue to use Cisco for our load-balancing needs, rather than transition over to F5.