You are correct Robert, in that the latency itself is not the issue for SAP. Our euro and American users all base from the Melb data centres. The issue for us, is that latency over 1000ms is usually tied to poor routing or contention issues, usually leading to small packet drops.<span></span><br>
<br>On Saturday, 31 August 2013, Robert Hudson wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">SAP isn't particularly latency sensitive. I have SAP users in Australia who use SAP systemsnin Europe on a daily basis - it is hard to find more latency when using terrestial links (and some of the links involved are quite contended).</p>
<p dir="ltr">SAP is *absolutely* sensitive to quality/reliability though, as you noted.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 31/08/2013 10:30 AM, "Jason Reid" <<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'jasereid@gmail.com');" target="_blank">jasereid@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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<div dir="ltr">SAP & VOIP are the two bugbears for us. SAP especially - 2 lost packets and the connection drops, losing all unsaved work for the end-user. VOIP for the usual reasons.<div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>
Jason A Reid</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:11 AM, John Glendenning <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'glendenning.j@gmail.com');" target="_blank">glendenning.j@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi All,<br><br></div>I'm curious to find out what latency sensitive applications people are seeing/managing/utilising or that are over the horizon (other than VOIP).<br>
<br></div>Thanks,<br>
<br></div>John G.<br><div><div><br><br></div></div></div>
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