[162739] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Andros Island Connectivity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Seastrom)
Tue Apr 30 22:09:50 2013
To: Joel M Snyder <Joel.Snyder@Opus1.COM>
From: Rob Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:08:25 -0400
In-Reply-To: <51807799.5080506@opus1.com> (Joel M. Snyder's message of "Tue,
30 Apr 2013 19:02:01 -0700")
Cc: aaron@heyaaron.com, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Joel M Snyder <Joel.Snyder@Opus1.COM> writes:
> Actually, Citrix (in particular) works quite well over satellite
> latencies. The network project I'm working on right now is wrapping
> up an app rollout to about 100 countries, many of which we can only
> reach via VSAT. Testing showed that Citrix performance is much better
> for AJAX-y web apps than pure HTTP.
>
> Citrix has a bunch of intelligence built-in specifically to deal with
> issues related to high-latency/low-bandwidth circuits, including local
> mouse, local echo, click/movement aggregation into large packets, and
> of course compression-before-encryption. It's not quite Memorex, but
> it's very usable.
That's good to know that it's evolved so well. Painful, almost
repressed memories suggest that it wasn't always so good.
-r
