Translate Lastenausgleich from German to English

– In communications, the process of routing traffic over two or more routes rather than one. Such load balancing results in faster, more reliable transmissions. ¹

– In distributed processing, the distribution of activity across two or more servers in order to avoid overloading any one with too many requests from users. ¹

– In client/server network administration, the process of reducing heavy traffic flows either by dividing a busy network segment into multiple smaller segments or by using software to distribute traffic among multiple network interface cards working simultaneously to transfer information to a server. ¹

– A device or software that distributes the work between several computers, processes, hard disks, or other resources to get optimal resource utilization. A network load balancer, in the context of Application Request Routing, is a proxy-based load balancer that distributes network traffic among several Web servers. ¹