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Link Controller designed to protect Web site operators from network failures.
SEATTLE - F5 Networks, best known for products that evenly distribute traffic loads among Web servers, last week introduced a box designed to balance loads across Internet access links.
F5's Big-IP Link Controller 2000 also can redirect traffic from one ISP's connection to another's in the event of a failed Internet access link and support efforts by companies to send and receive traffic over the least-cost route based on time of day or other factors.
Any company that hosts its own Web...