[THIN] Re: WAN bandwidth management/performance

We have a box from Allot (NetEnfrocer) which we will be testing and is
extremely similar to Packeteer but cheaper.  We havn't got it in
production yet but plan to in the next few days.  I always see Packeteer
and Allot's name come out when it comes to bandwidth management.  
 
Packeteer is the biggest name because they were one of the first (the
first?) to do bandwidth management on large and enterprise scales and be
dedicated to ONLY that purpose, and I think you end up paying a little
extra for name because of it.

None of these products are cheap, by any means, and for a small branch
office with 50 users, you may find it to not be cost effective, but I
guess it depends on how much the hardware/maintenance cost compare to
getting a smaller pipe and squeezing more from it.
 
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Chris Grecsek
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 5:43 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] WAN bandwidth management/performance



We are setting up 2 branch offices with about 50 users each to access
our central office/server farm via Citrix. We are delivering full
desktop sessions (including printing and surfing) to those offices and
we're evaluating products to manage our WAN bandwidth/performance.
Currently we're looking at products from Packeteer and Expand Networks
but wanted to bounce it off the list to see what others are using for
this as this will be critical to ensuring that our users are getting the
performance they're expecting. I see that some of the big Citrix
consulting firms are recommending Packeteer but from what I've looked at
it seems like the equipment from Expand might be a better option? 

 

Our goal is to have as little equipment as possible at the branch
office. Ideally all we'd like at each site would be the router,
bandwidth management device, firewall, switch and then thin
clients/dumbed down desktops.  

 

Any advice would be much appreciated. 

 

Thanks,

 

Chris Grecsek

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