From our experience it would take Cisco a few days to come up with a demo unit for us to test. While waiting for Cisco to determine the “sizing requirements” we decided to give Riverbed a call. During our initial conference call with them, Cisco totally understood the test scenario, was extremely knowledgeable and immediately on the ball to determine our sizing requirements for testing the Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS). This was not an option so it was on to Vendor #2.Ĭisco is amazing. The final suggested solution from Juniper was to create a layer 3 routed segment for the WAN. Needless to say after weeks of tweaking, we saw little acceleration in our given layer 2 environment. Juniper Engineers explained that they were more accustomed to being in a routed environment but assured us the WXC would accelerate only layer 2.
For our scenario the appliance would need to be in-line with the traffic. The Juniper Sales Engineers were top notch, came on site and helped us get the WXC installed and configured properly. Lets see how they do…įirst to the gate was Juniper who brought in their WXC Wan Accelerator. All said their product could do the job the best. Each vendor was explained the architecture, were to provide two units, one for each end of the circuit.
We invited three vendors, Juniper, Cisco, and Riverbed, to bring in their appliances for an unofficial bake-off. This essentially enabled the two locations to act as one virtual location via the switched metro-ethernet. This was a straight layer two circuit, with no routing. The media we used was a 40Mbs TimeWarner metro ethernet circuit. Our test scenario was to move an entire data center from Sterling, Virginia, USA to Austin, TX. I had the pleasure of reviewing three different appliances that were designed for WAN Optimization. The need for faster information, bigger pipes, and the need to reduce circuit costs has spurred a need for devices that will make all of that happen. WAN Optimization has been a bit of a buzz word for the past several years. I was amazed at the science behind these awesome devices and how they were able to “speed” up long distance data transfers. I recently had the opportunity to test out and implement some of the top WAN optimization products on the market today.
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