On 12 Apr 2010 at 10:06, Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan wrote: > > I tested all of the major wan optimizers about 2 years ago including Riverbed > Steelheads, Cisco WAAS, and the Citrix product. The end result is the > Riverbed blew everyone out of the water. It wasn´t even close. I initially > thought the Citrix product would be best since at the time all wan users used > citrix for 100% of their work, but what I found after installing demo units > is the ICA protocol was apparently not being optimized to the degree I had > anticipated. I worked with engineers of the product who explained how the ICA > optimization worked which after understanding it I wasn´t too impressed. The > users notice no real difference.When I put the steelheads in, the performance > increase was so great I actually eventually pulled everyone at all remote > sites off of citrix with the exception of 2 database apps that still have to > go through citrix because they´re too chatty. I average a 7x bandwidth > increase with the steelheads with their compression. IMO, they might cost a > lot more, but are worth every penny.
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