The Level 3^SM Intelligent Traffic Management (ITM) solution is a powerful DNS-based load-balancing offering that not only directs end-user traffic to the closest, most reliable location, but also monitors the health of sites and applications to make necessary changes in real-time. At Level 3 Communications, we understand that that you want the security benefits of using more than one content delivery network; that's why we allow you to use our ITM service to point to your other content-delivery networks.

Intelligent Traffic Management Service Details

• With geo intelligence, the ITM service detects where end users are located and routes them to the closest and best-performing server. If a failover occurs, users are routed to the next-best server.

• Configure a static traffic-distribution policy by specifying the percentage of traffic directed at each application server. Overflow servers are engineered to handle spillover traffic, or all traffic in the event of total application failover.

• The ITM service monitors application servers for unresponsiveness and removes the IP address of failed servers as available destinations.

• In addition to 24 x 7 network operation support, our Web-based management portal allows you to track real-time and historical usage as well as online ticket management.

Intelligent Traffic Management Service Benefits

• Quickly and effectively manage internet traffic by using our ITM service for automatic failover, global load balancing, geo intelligence, or any combination of the three.

• Decrease your costs for bandwidth and caching by controlling where and how traffic is distributed. As a subscription-based service, you can also avoid purchasing costly ITM hardware or software.

• Easily and securely administer the ITM service using our Web-based portal. Our ITM service also includes setup and configuration and can be turned up in a matter of minutes as a CNAME alias or name-server delegation.

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