It's been a little while, but I think the big advantage of Riverbed comes when you have one in each of multiple locations. If this isn't the case, you might look into a caching proxy. There was a thread on here recently that discussed a few of them.
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the info. They claim to conserve over 50% bandwidth but I > have a feeling that would only be in an optimal environment where > their deduplication services would be of the best use. If anyone else > has more info I'd be glad to hear it. Thanks! > > Ray > > On Feb 24, 4:09 pm, Don Delp <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Raymond <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > I just recently heard about Riverbed Technologies (http:// >> >www.riverbed.com) and was wondering if anyone has had any experience >> > or information regarding their company and solution. One of my clients >> > had mentioned it and I've had no past experience with them. >> >> > They seem to sell a WAN Optimization service. Looking a little further >> > into it it seems they use deduplication mostly. Does anyone have >> > experience or opinions about this? Thanks! >> >> > Raymond Beaudoin >> >> We used it at my last job: a company with locations in Asia, Europe, >> US, and Mexico. As far as I could tell, it's a caching proxy with a >> client side software. It's pretty good at conserving your bandwidth, >> especially if you have multiple people at a location trying to access >> the same files over the network. >> >> The software was reasonably stable. We only had a few (rare) issues >> with it using up the cpu for no reason. >> >> I don't know anything about the pricing, and I don't have any numbers >> on how much bandwidth it actually saved us, although there is some >> sort of graphing mechanism built in if you want to track your stats. >> >> -- >> Don Delp >> 618.616.2993http://nesman.net/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- Don Delp 618.616.2993 http://nesman.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
