[193335] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bandwidth Savings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marty Strong via NANOG)
Wed Jan 11 12:47:58 2017
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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:47:49 +0000
To: Keenan Singh <keenansingh@airlinktt.net>
From: Marty Strong via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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The first step would be profiling your traffic sources. I would imagine =
you probably have a bunch of YouTube, Netflix et al. content, that those =
content providers will send you a cache box for, subject to minimum =
traffic requirements.
Regards,
Marty Strong
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> On 11 Jan 2017, at 04:08, Keenan Singh <keenansingh@airlinktt.net> =
wrote:
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> Hi Guys
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> We are an ISP in the Caribbean, and are faced with extremely high =
Bandwidth
> costs, compared to the US, we currently use Peer App for Caching =
however
> with most services now moving to HTTPS the cache is proving to be less =
and
> less effective. We are currently looking at any way we can save on
> Bandwidth or to be more Efficient with the Bandwidth we currently =
have. We
> do have a Layer 2 Circuit between the Island and Miami, I am seeing =
there
> are WAN Accelerators where they would put a Server on either end and =
sort
> of Compress and decompress the Traffic before it goes over the Layer =
2, I
> have never used this before, has any one here used anything like this, =
what
> results would I be able to expect for ISP Traffic?
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> If not any ideas on Bandwidth Savings, or being more Efficient with =
want we
> currently.
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> Many thanks for any Help
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> Keenan
