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

[Giles Pollock]

+1 for the Silverpeak units, we ended up replacing the Riverbed units
causing our CIFS issues with them and haven't had a problem since.

Giles

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Lloyd Wood <lloyd.wood at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> We've found that Silver Peak works far better than any alternatives for
> satellite links.
>
> Lloyd Wood
> lloyd.wood at yahoo.co.uk
> http://sat-net.com/L.Wood
>
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> *From:* Giles Pollock <glp71s at gmail.com>
> *To:*
> *Cc:* "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 30 January 2013, 14:36
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Riverbed (or other) Edge devices for data
> compression - Seeking feedback or Suggestions
>
> 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,****
> ** **
> 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
> SD/HD).****
> ** **
> 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 ?****
> ** **
> I would like to hear your thoughts, either about the Riverbed kit or
> others. Off-list is fine.****
> ** **
> Thanks in advance.****
> ** **
> Cheers,****
> ** **
> ** **
> Darren.****
> ** **
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