[162740] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Andros Island Connectivity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Bailey)
Tue Apr 30 22:13:03 2013
From: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
To: Joel M Snyder <jms@opus1.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 02:10:02 +0000
In-Reply-To: <51807799.5080506@opus1.com>
Cc: "aaron@heyaaron.com" <aaron@heyaaron.com>,
"Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Seastrom! ;)
On 4/30/13 7:02 PM, "Joel M Snyder" <jms@opus1.com> wrote:
>>
>> Protracted discussion (and promotion) has glossed over one key point:
>>
>>>> None of the people on-site are technical, and all their data is
>>>>accessed
>>>> via RDP on a server in the United States.
>>
>> They will not be happy with VSAT latency (typically 700ms though
>> physics says you can never do better than 550, and that's for the
>> space segment alone) if they are running RDP, VNC, Citrix, or similar
>> technologies. Sorry for being a buzzkill, Warren. :)
>
>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.
>
>I'd be happy to share the data with anyone who is interested; I also
>showed that F5 Big-IP load balancers can make really horrible ERP apps
>(*ahem* Oracle eBusiness *cough* *cough* *cough*) work a lot better as
>well, if you decide not to use Citrix.
>
>jms
>
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>
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