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

[Lloyd Wood]

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>
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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.
> 
>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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