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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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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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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