[68455] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Enterprise Multihoming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Nelson)
Thu Mar 11 22:47:48 2004
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:46:29 -0500
To: John Neiberger <john.neiberger@efirstbank.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Rob Nelson <ronelson@vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <s0504f84.071@efirstbank.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>There are similar boxes from FatPipe and Radware (and others) that
>promise the same thing. I've done some light research on them and while
>I can see some positives, I don't prefer them to our current solution.
>
>Then again, I don't have any practical experience with them and I hope
>someone who has will chime in.
On the fatpipe side, I can chime in. I've worked with their Superstream
products. As with all products there are good points, but I have a LOT of
bad points for the Superstream. It starts with being based on Caldera
openlinux and a required Java interface for all management. I wouldn't use
this product again if I could help it.
They may have other products that work better, particularly in the case of
true multihoming (the superstream is really so a business can pay for two
DSL connections and get double the bandwidth) and such. If anyone wants
more details, let me know.
