I use WAN acceleration appliances to optimize traffic over satellite links. Initially we used Blue Coats but due to some issues they have, or had, with satellite links we replaced them with Riverbeds and now we have over 100 of them deployed. The Riverbed units have done a much better job and if there is a power failure they fail open, as they use the fail-through NICs which have always worked so far. Regards, --ricardo On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Ernest McCaleb wrote:
I would certainly look at Riverbed. In my experience they make a product that is just sensational. I could really go on and on about their product but I'd come off sounding like an advertisement.
Juniper's WX is a good product also and worth a look. In my experience people tend to go with the WAAS because it can be really cheap with the right bundle.
Ernest.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Bill Lewis <blewis@hottopic.com> wrote:
Anyone in the group using hardware based wan acceleration and have suggestions?
If so, anyone using it over a static IPSEC Cisco VPN link (or other vendor)? I've seen a demo of Cisco WAAS and why they think it's best of breed. Spoke to F5, theirs is still in beta so they suggested Riverbed. I've been told that Riverbed (unlike Cisco) reverse engineers protocols to allow for pass-through though, which worries me in case of failure. Cisco on the other hand licenses the protocols from the various vendors.
Other vendors I'm looking at as possibilities are RocketConnect, RadWare, BlueCoat, and Juniper.
My connectivity is a tier 2 Metro E at one site (policed at 90Mbps), Tier 1 OC3 at other.
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Cheers, Bill Lewis
-- Ernest McCaleb