[AusNOG] Compression Appliances

[Lloyd Wood]

We've had good success with Silver Peak on a range of geostationary satellite links varying between 1Mbps to 100Mbps. 50+ appliances.

As an ISP, we see a wide variety of Internet traffic with little of the repetition you might get with e.g. corporate MAPI, so savings vary - but 30% is still possible.  Reducing satellite bandwidth costs by 30% is significant, as is the far better feel of the satellite link customers get from having acceleration there. The sheer number of flows we face at our high end, rather than the bw, is our challenge for acceleration - all that flow state to track, and # of flows can hit box limits long before bandwidth does. Have started using their virtual devices on Xen at the low end - free trial.


(Riverbed's licensing model wouldn't work for us. I've not really seen a Cisco solution suitable for geo satellite - and that includes their very-low-end RBSCP.)

 
Lloyd Wood
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On Monday, 4 November 2013, 9:45, Joseph Goldman <joe at apcs.com.au> wrote:
 
Hi List,

  Looking for recommendations on appliances to compress data for 
transport over limited bandwidth availability link. Currently utilising 
Cisco to do so, but am keen to see other options out there. Looking for 
real world results (not optimal condition bench test results) to go 
alongside recommendations if possible. The 'limited availability' link 
is 100mbit, so looking to see how much data we could potentially send 
down it compressed.

  If you work for vendor and recommending your own product, replies 
off-list please.

Thanks,
Joe
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