Editing Load balancing (computing) (section)

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Many telecommunications companies have multiple routes through their networks or to external networks.  They use sophisticated load balancing to shift traffic from one path to another to avoid [[network congestion]] on any particular link, and sometimes to minimize the cost of transit across external networks or improve [[Reliability (computer networking)|network reliability]].

Another way of using load balancing is in [[network monitoring]] activities. Load balancers can be used to split huge data flows into several sub-flows and use several network analyzers, each reading a part of the original data. This is very useful for monitoring fast networks like [[10 Gigabit Ethernet|10GbE]] or STM64, where complex processing of the data may not be possible at [[wire speed]].<ref>{{cite conference | last1=Noormohammadpour | first1=Mohammad | last2=Raghavendra | first2=Cauligi S. | title=IEEE INFOCOM 2018 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS) | chapter=Poster abstract: Minimizing flow completion times using adaptive routing over inter-datacenter wide area networks | publisher=IEEE | date=2018 | isbn=978-1-5386-5979-3 | doi=10.1109/INFCOMW.2018.8406853 | doi-access=free | pages=1–2| arxiv=1802.09080 }}</ref>