[AusNOG] Riverbed (or other) Edge devices for data compression - Seeking feedback or Suggestions

[Giles Pollock]

Overall I've found Riverbed units to work quite well, but I have also seen
some pretty strange issues with them in the past too. One of the weird
hiccups was with CIFS traffic, it would truncate files being saved to a
remote file server, and also cause some strange file locking issues at the
same time. In other cases, some http traffic would get chewed up and not
render properly on destination machines (this was quite rare though).

In other installations I've seen Riverbed units working particularly well
for high latency services (satellite connections), where the WAN
acceleration really came into its own.

The CIFS issue was only a real problem on a Windows 7 user SOE, for some
reason XP was always fine.

Giles

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Darren Moss <Darren.Moss at em3.com.au> wrote:

> Afternoon Noggers,****
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> We are looking at deploying Riverbed kit across multiple datacentres,
> mainly to take advantage of compression capability from both platform to
> customer (applications) and DC to DC (replication of content, SQL, video
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> We have some experience with edge devices which utilise compression
> techniques but now looking to push that a littler harder.****
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> Has anyone here worked with the WAN optimisation technology ?****
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> I would like to hear your thoughts, either about the Riverbed kit or
> others. Off-list is fine.****
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> Thanks in advance.****
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> Cheers,****
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> Darren.****
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