The Trident Net Load Balance service is based on managed Cisco Local Director hardware. The service offers a high-availability, integrated hardware and software solution that intelligently balances the load of user traffic across multiple application or web servers. The service tracks network sessions and server load conditions in real time, directing each session to the most appropriate server. All physical servers appear as one virtual server, requiring only a single IP address and a single Universal Resource Locator (URL) for an entire server farm.

Cisco Local Director scales to exceed the demands of the highest traffic data centres and Internet sites. By distributing user requests across a cluster of servers, Trident Net load Balance Service optimises responsiveness and system capacity, ensures scalability, and dramatically reduces the cost of providing large-scale Internet, database, and application services. With a real-time, embedded operating system, the Cisco LocalDirector hardware is a proven, reliable solution in the highest-traffic and most demanding data centres.