The Unified Load Balancer (ULB) is a Cisco proprietary node or network function (NF) that manages traffic distribution of incoming network traffic equally across all worker nodes and ensures high availability and reliability across network infrastructures.

• Developed using the Subscriber Microservices Infrastructure (SMI), a Cloud Native (CN) application.

• Delivered as a CN-based image and deployed as a CN application using the SMI Cluster Manager (SMI CM).

• Supports protocol applications utilizing UDP and TCP that require load balancing across multiple protocol pods.