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Line 12: Microsoft has also purchased<ref>http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server/microsoft-purchases-clustering-company</ref> a technology that it renamed Network Load Balancing (NLB) that allows for efficient utilization of multiple network cards. MS NLB can be configured in [[unicast]] or in [[multicast]] mode<ref name='ovw'>TechNet [~~http~~https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725691.aspx Overview of NLB], visited 8 June 2013</ref> where in multicast mode you can enable [[IGMP snooping]]. MS NLB was introduced for the first time in [[Windows NT 4.0\|Windows NT server]] to spread traffic over multiple hosts without the need for a hardware based load balancer, e.g. when you host a busy web-server application where a single host wouldn't be able to manage all the traffic. And in more recent applications it would be used in Windows clusters for [[Hyper-V]] or [[Microsoft SQL Server]]

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