[16406] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Traffic Shapping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Browne)
Fri Apr 24 13:46:50 1998
In-Reply-To: <00f301bd6fa1$4fdd1a70$3b8d2dc7@hermosa.frontier.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:26:39 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Jim Browne <jbrowne@jbrowne.com>
At 10:52 -0600 4/24/98, Natambu Obleton wrote:
>I am looking to do the shaping on Ethernet Interfaces for a large fiber
>plant. I have been looking the solution by Aponet. Anyone out there used it?
>I believe it is what above.net uses.
I've been using them for quite some time (~ 1 year?). Aponet was slammed
by NetworkWorld recently. The strange thing is I have never seen the
problems the reviewer in NW mentioned. We regularly pump > 7Mbps through
their 10Mbps box and have started stress testing the 100Mbps box. The
primary shortcoming I see with Aponet's solution is the lack of
prioritization or limitation by port number or protocol. Aponet assures me
they are currently working on a new release that includes such
functionality.
In the interest of full disclosure, I did hang out at Aponet's Spring
ISPCon booth and helped them (for free) with a technical presentation.
Other than that, I'm just one of their customers.
Jim Browne jbrowne@jbrowne.com
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