[RADIATOR] What is the "new Radiator load balancer"?

[Heikki Vatiainen]

On 21.9.2016 17.37, Nadav Hod wrote:

> Looking over the Radiator 4.17 release notes, there is talk of a new
> loadbalancer. Any chance someone in the know can elaborate on this
> loadbalancer?  :)

This is the component you can see here:
https://www.open.com.au/nfv/

The first image shows traffic arriving via Radius and Diameter load 
balancers. This is not a generic load balancer but part of distributed 
Radiator solution, be it NFV, or something that uses Radiator with a 
load balancer to fan out traffic to Radiator instances.

Radiator and its load balancer, which is not a Radiator instance but a 
specific software that does just load balancing, can communicate with 
each other and share information. This information is about worker 
instance health, automatic registration with scale in/out, hints about 
balancing, for example, to keep EAP streams together.

What's currently in Radiator is the first release of Radiator part. The 
load balancer works currently with NFV only, but will work making it 
available as a non-NFV package too.

Thanks,
Heikki

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