[70816] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: WAN accelerator recommendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ledwidge, Feargal)
Wed May 26 17:33:07 2004
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 16:32:13 -0500
From: "Ledwidge, Feargal" <FLedwidge@NRTWebServices.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I worked very heavily with the expand product line in 1999 thru 2001.=20
Our site was one of the beta test sites for their frame-relay product.
Their products are first class and yielded us fabulous results.=20
Here's an extract from a CIO magazine article referencing my experience:
Expand Networks of Roseland, N.J., builds network accelerators that save
bandwidth by using several techniques. In one way, the accelerators can
recognize the data packets in a single communications session, strip out
their headers (which, by definition, are all the same), and replace them
with a two-bit session number. Feargal Ledwidge, network manager for
Irvine, Calif.-based Wyle Electronics, says he's seen a threefold to
fourfold increase in effective bandwidth by using the products. "Without
these accelerators we would probably have had to double our bandwidth
purchases," he says.
http://www.cio.com/archive/070100/et.html
Bottom-line - their products rock and from what I hear just keep getting
better & better
Feargal
Feargal Ledwidge
Web Services Engineer
NRT Web Services
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Ray [mailto:miker@cotse.com]=20
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 4:01 PM
To: Matt Bazan
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: WAN accelerator recommendations
On Tue, 25 May 2004 16:02:57 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello,
> I'm looking for advice and recommendations on WAN (T1 speeds)
>accelerator devices. I've seen the literature on the offerings from
>Peribit, NetCelera and Packeteer and am looking for some real-world
>feedback. Can anyone provide me with their experiences using these
>products or similar? Thanks,
>
> Matt
For what it is worth, one of the partners I work with was going
through the due diligence of reviewing and testing WAN accelerator
devices for their branch offices instead of pulling in more circuits.=20
They were leaning toward Expand Network's gear but the entire project
was dropped so they are still in the same boat.
Expand's site:
http://www.expand.com/
Mike
