<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span style="background-color: transparent;">We've found the Exinda QoS shapers useful at the low end.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">The first and now-discontinued 2060 was far too low-performance to be useful (underlying linux couldn't even keep the serial port driver running reliably, so goodbye CLI) but the shrunk-box 2061 and the 4000 series running on Dell servers have worked well in deployment. Haven't looked in depth
into their high end, phone-home virtual machine licenses or acceleration, which seems to be based off enabling a bunch of everything-in-the-kernel Linux TCP variants.</span><br></div><div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Exinda is very much a US company these days in positioning and outlook; Australian pricing recently increased as a result of the exchange rate.</span></div><div> </div><div>Lloyd Wood<br>lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk<br><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div id="yiv1715372169"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="yiv1715372169WordSection1">
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I've heard good things about Exinda as an alternative platform -
another WAN op vendor initially developed in Melbourne that might be
worth a look - <a rel="nofollow" class="yiv1715372169moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://www1.exinda.com/">http://www1.exinda.com/</a><br>
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