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 <[email protected]> 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. > > Reply to post, or off list. > > Cheers, > Bill Lewis > > > -- Ernest McCaleb
