Understanding ADC Performance Metrics

Increase your success with the right ADC platform

Published May 2017

Application delivery services are critical for successful applications. Whether such services add scalability, reliability, or security, most applications rely on one or more. Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs), therefore, occupy a critical place in most application, cloud, and data center designs.

For many environments, including private cloud installations, dedicated ADC hardware is still the preferred platform for delivering application delivery services. This is because a dedicated platform incorporates controlled, stable, and consistent resources. A dedicated, purpose-built appliance can consistently deliver the performance and reliability that even the most demanding application workload requires, because it has no variation in hypervisor, software, or underlying compute platform—plus it has the advantages of specialized hardware components to offload tasks from the CPU.