[157138] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Typical additional latency for CGN?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cutler James R)
Sun Oct 7 17:32:26 2012
From: Cutler James R <james.cutler@consultant.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAK__KzscveWKw5Xt+N0EVZrgbMX3Ho0hnsdE785U0EfOWPpqMw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 17:30:33 -0400
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On Oct 7, 2012, at 4:56 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com> =
wrote:
> Ancedotally, for users of an e-gadget company's website, cellphone
> company's outbound web proxies, internet games company, and
> image-intensive home furnishings website, the CGNs delivered content
> faster than the main website could, regardless of increasing its
> bandwidth. Latency problems with the CGNs were less than the main
> websites' latency problems, on the average.
>=20
> There were days that was not true, and days we had to re-re-re-reset
> the CGN contents, and the day the @#$#@$% game programmers screwed up
> the CGN calls, but on the whole it was among the least performance
> limiting / impeding features of the sites in question.
>=20
>=20
> -george
>=20
> On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Tom Limoncelli <tal@whatexit.org> =
wrote:
>> Have there been studies on how much latency CGN adds to a typical
>> internet user? I'd also be interested in anecdotes.
>>=20
>> I've seen theoretical predictions but by now we should have
>> measurements from early-world deployments.
>>=20
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
>>=20
>> --
>> Speaking at MacTech Conference 2012. http://mactech.com/conference
>> http://EverythingSysadmin.com -- my blog
>> http://www.TomOnTime.com -- my videos
Huh? I had presumed that CGN was Carrier Grade NAT, not a proxy =
service. Help me understand.
James R. Cutler
james.cutler@consultant.com
