Abstract

Nortel commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate a converged network infrastructure for Enterprise users to illustrate the load balancing capabilities of its Nortel Application Switch 2424/3408.

The series of tests called for demonstrating that Application Switches can load balance user sessions across Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005 (LCS Server) within a pool, both on–site and across a network. Tests also aimed to verify that the Application Switch provides resiliency by seamlessly taking over the available and new user sessions from other sites in the network, in the event of a failure of an Application Switch or LCS server.