9 Computer hardware; computer software; computer hardware and software for optimizing the performance and delivery of data, images, messages, and traffic over the internet; computer hardware and software for the transmission and sharing of global computer traffic, data, and information among network computers, servers, and routers; computer hardware and software for optimizing the delivery of applications over IP networks through traffic management, bandwidth management, clustering, load balancing, application acceleration, application performance monitoring, and network traffic redirection, and for the provision of network security; computer hardware and software for use in determining and allocating network device names, IP application routing information, TCP/IP address assignments, and related name-based network traffic load balancing techniques