This was followed by the Signaling Delivery Controller, a single solution for Diameter routing, load balancing and gateway connectivity in 2011.

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Esme is right when she notes that better load balancing may help, and that ultimately more or upgraded infrastructure will be required.

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Load balancing means dividing and distributing the workload between multiple base stations.

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Load balancing is no longer a hot topic, as the solution has pretty much trickled down from the Web to mainstream enterprises.

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In his previous company, Valence Research, Bain developed a distributed Web load-balancing software solution that was acquired by Microsoft and is now called Network Load Balancing within the Windows Server operating system.

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There are many types of servers (for recommendation, load balancing, streaming to different devices, search queries, page servers, caching etc) spread over several locations all over the world, file types and formats for a plethora of consumer devices based on resolution, type of device, bandwidth of the consumer and the hardware capability.

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Google is testing a fleet of plug-in hybrids and software that would turn them into load-balancing tools for utilities flooded with variable power from wind and solar generators.

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