UDP Load Balancing Solutions
Fast and reliable load balancing for UDP, QUIC, and TCP/HTTP application traffic with one powerful solution.
The problem?
Maintaining reliability and scalability for UDP applications is hard.
Applications and infrastructure components often leverage the UDP protocol for DNS lookups, video streaming, online gaming, and transporting log data. However, these uses are sensitive to performance fluctuations and transmission errors. Too much latency or packet loss, and user experiences noticeably suffer.
While UDP load balancers should theoretically help, many offer slow and unreliable packet delivery at high scale.
High-performance UDP load balancing provides robust quality of service at scale
Faster UDP load balancing maintains low latency for a responsive user experience and high packet delivery rates for a robust quality of service compared with other software load balancers. A unified solution provides flexibility to handle UDP applications such as DNS, RADIUS, and Syslog alongside TCP/HTTP traffic.
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External traffic
Reliable, low-latency load balancing for user-facing UDP applications. -
Internal traffic
Flexible, highly scalable UDP/TCP load balancing for DNS, RADIUS, logging, and more.
UDP load balancing benefits
Simple deployment & integration
Flexible TCP/HTTP and UDP load balancing in any environment with a single unified application delivery platform.
High quality of service & stable UX
Best-in-class UDP packet delivery rates and backend health checks for time-sensitive UDP apps.
Optimized costs as scale
Handle 3.8 million Syslog messages per second on a single instance with low latency and low resource use, reducing operational costs.
Broad protocol support
Leverage high-performance UDP load balancing for DNS, Syslog, RADIUS, and more.
What are people saying about HAProxy?
"The new HAProxy Enterprise UDP Module works efficiently and quickly to load balance our RADIUS servers with minimal latency overhead. Additionally, with HAProxy Fusion Control Plane integrating centralized monitoring with Grafana, we have experienced a substantial increase in observability and easier troubleshooting."
Mikel Cranfill
IT Server Administrator II at Hendrick Health
With HAProxy One,UDP is just the start
Our UDP solution is delivered by HAProxy One – the world’s fastest application delivery and security platform, consisting of a flexible data plane (HAProxy Enterprise), a scalable control plane (HAProxy Fusion), and a secure edge network (HAProxy Edge).
Unified Platform with API/GUI
Exceptional Performance
Next-Gen Security powered by Threat Intel + ML
Flexible Deployment & Integration
Full-Lifecycle Management & Automation
Centralized Observability
World-Class Customer Experience
Ecosystem & Community
Use your favorite technologies with HAProxy.
HAProxy Enterprise and HAProxy Fusion Control Plane seamlessly integrate with leading technology platforms.
HAProxy is named G2's leader in Load Balancing, Container Networking, API Management, WAF, and DDoS Protection.
Load balancing and HA is mission critical for some of our services, since we need to feed 24/7 streams to our consumers. HAProxy is perfect for that.
Matteo P, via G2
Ready to get started with UDP?
Unlock high performance load balancing for UDP applications with HAProxy Enterprise. Enjoy improved reliability, lower latency, and the simplicity of unified application delivery.
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