Joel M Snyder <Joel.Snyder@Opus1.COM> writes:
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.
That's good to know that it's evolved so well. Painful, almost repressed memories suggest that it wasn't always so good. -r