A media-streaming company plans to launch a new service and has provisioned several identical application servers in the DMZ. Management wants incoming client requests distributed evenly among the servers so that no single host becomes a bottleneck and the overall service remains highly available. Which network appliance best satisfies this requirement?
Proxy server
Jump server
Intrusion prevention system (IPS)/intrusion detection system (IDS)
A load balancer is designed to distribute network or application traffic across multiple servers, preventing any one server from becoming overloaded and thereby improving responsiveness, availability, and scalability. A proxy server can cache or filter traffic and may perform limited distribution, but load balancing is not its primary role. An IPS/IDS focuses on monitoring or blocking malicious traffic, and a jump server provides controlled administrative access to devices in another security zone. Neither of these addresses the performance and availability needs described in the scenario.
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