Personnally I have used the Alteon series loadbalancers with their ISD ssl accelerator. I can't complain...they have worked like a champ. Just another option for ya :)
ms --- Gaz wrote: > Not providing many/any answers here I'm afraid - > just asking more questions. > Is SSL that suitable for caching? I would have > thought that most SSL traffic > would be unique (Session ID's/transaction info etc). > That's not a cocky question, I really don't know. I > suppose there will be > static content within the SSL pages. > > I've used Intel SSL accelerators which seem to > perform pretty well. We also > do a fair bit of load balancing with Foundry > Networks kit (Server Irons/Big > Irons) and they're pretty nippy and pretty cheap > compared to Cisco, and have > the advantage that their CLI is very close to Cisco. > I suppose it depends what scale you're doing it on. > > From what I've seen of the Cisco CSS (Arrowpoint > kit) they seem to offer > greater functionality/flexibility than Foundry, but > not seen much of them > working in anger yet. > > Be interesting to hear what Stratacache really mean > by caching content in > SSL-ready format. > > > Gaz > > ""John Neiberger"" wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > We are looking at buying some new load balancing > switches and new cache > > engines and somewhere in that mix we want to add > SSL acceleration. One > > vendor that we're looking at sells load balancing > switches with SSL > > acceleration built-in. Of course, they really > like their way of doing > > this. The other vendor has a cache engine with > SSL acceleration and > > they say there is a significant performance > increase by caching content > > in SSL-ready format. > > > > Do any of you have any thoughts here? The first > vendor is F5 and I > > really like the looks of their Big IP series. The > second vendor is > > Stratacache and I really don't know much about > them despite having > > talked to them about this. :-) > > > > Any tips? > > > > Thanks, > > John [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=30737&t=30724 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
