Drag and drop each service chaining element on the left to its matching position in a typical chain on the right.
Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.
First element in the service chain
Inspects and filters traffic after ingress
Distributes traffic among servers after firewall
Compresses and optimizes traffic before egress
Last element before the destination network
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Correct answer & explanation
Ingress Router: First element in the service chain
In a typical service chain, traffic flows from the ingress router through firewall, load balancer, WAN optimizer, and finally to the egress router.
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