[119461] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wan acceleration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ernest McCaleb)
Thu Nov 19 14:25:52 2009
In-Reply-To: <26CF6BC367161D4BAFC39B6ED6F885F301D6115B@TNEXPRD.hottopic.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:25:13 -0500
From: Ernest McCaleb <emccaleb@gmail.com>
To: Bill Lewis <blewis@hottopic.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I would certainly look at Riverbed. In my experience they make a product
that is just sensational. I could really go on and on about their product
but I'd come off sounding like an advertisement.
Juniper's WX is a good product also and worth a look. In my experience
people tend to go with the WAAS because it can be really cheap with the
right bundle.
Ernest.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Bill Lewis <blewis@hottopic.com> wrote:
> Anyone in the group using hardware based wan acceleration and have
> suggestions?
>
> If so, anyone using it over a static IPSEC Cisco VPN link (or other
> vendor)?
> I've seen a demo of Cisco WAAS and why they think it's best of breed.
> Spoke to F5, theirs is still in beta so they suggested Riverbed. I've
> been told that Riverbed (unlike Cisco) reverse engineers protocols to
> allow for pass-through though, which worries me in case of failure.
> Cisco on the other hand licenses the protocols from the various vendors.
>
> Other vendors I'm looking at as possibilities are RocketConnect,
> RadWare, BlueCoat, and Juniper.
>
> My connectivity is a tier 2 Metro E at one site (policed at 90Mbps),
> Tier 1 OC3 at other.
>
> Reply to post, or off list.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill Lewis
>
>
>
--
Ernest McCaleb
