On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 12:16:31AM +0300, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > hi all ! > > Few days ago I was at Cisco Expo 2007 in Israel, and came across truly > revolutionary technology demo: WAAS. > This technology is able to locally intercept and ack TCP-sessions as > well as do application-layer-specific optimizations, and the > performance win was HUGE - something like 10x-20x fold win ! ! ! > > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/waas/waas/v401/configuration/guide/intro.html#wp1055743 > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6870/index.html > > This results in downloading multi-megabyte files over the Internet in > just few seconds ! (instead of minutes). I was totally shocked when I > saw this in action. > > Unfortunately, Cisco and their pricing are out-of-reach for home users. > > Is there anything Open-Source on Linux that have similar functionality ?
Looks much like what a transparent proxy setup using Squid could do. (Where squid would retrieve the remote data using compression, even if the client did not ask for compression.) Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
