[opensuse] Revolution in networking - possible ?

2007-06-01 Thread Alexey Eremenko
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

Re: [opensuse] Revolution in networking - possible ?

2007-06-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 01 June 2007 14:16, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > hi all ! > > Few days ago I was at Cisco Expo 2007 in Israel, and came across > truly revolutionary technology demo: WAAS. Someone should have told them about GPS. But then, TLAs are highly overloaded, there's little reason four-letter ones w

Re: [opensuse] Revolution in networking - possible ?

2007-06-01 Thread Alexey Eremenko
> Is there anything Open-Source on Linux that have similar > functionality ? Randall Schulz wrote: Squid? AFAIK, Squid can only accelerate something if it's cached, that is, was downloaded once. while WAAS accelerate both cached and non-cached data. -- -Alexey

Re: [opensuse] Revolution in networking - possible ?

2007-06-01 Thread Marcus Meissner
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-specif

Re: [opensuse] Revolution in networking - possible ?

2007-06-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 01 June 2007 14:37, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > > > Is there anything Open-Source on Linux that have similar > > > functionality ? > > Randall Schulz wrote: > > Squid? > > > > > > AFAIK, Squid can only accelerate something if it's cached, that is, > was downloa

Re: [opensuse] Revolution in networking - possible ?

2007-06-01 Thread Alexey Eremenko
I'd characterize that as "similar functionality." Besides, I find it hard to believe it can speed-up the retrieval of something it doesn't have immediately available to serve locally. Even if it has something to do with the selective compression, that's only going to increase latency on the initi

Re: [opensuse] Revolution in networking - possible ?

2007-06-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 01 June 2007 15:22, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > > I'd characterize that as "similar functionality." > > > > Besides, I find it hard to believe it can speed-up the retrieval of > > something it doesn't have immediately available to serve locally. > > Even if it has something to do with the se

Re: [opensuse] Revolution in networking - possible ?

2007-06-01 Thread James Knott
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

Re: [opensuse] Revolution in networking - possible ?

2007-06-01 Thread Rajko M.
On Friday 01 June 2007 17:36, Randall R Schulz wrote: > You saw a carefully crafted demo. Don't assume you'd see similar > performance in a real-world situation. > > You know what they say: Your Mileage May Vary (YMMV) > > > Non-cached data flows very fast with WAAS. Taking speedup of 10x it is pr

Re: [opensuse] Revolution in networking - possible ?

2007-06-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 01 June 2007 17:47, Rajko M. wrote: > On Friday 01 June 2007 17:36, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > You saw a carefully crafted demo. Don't assume you'd see similar > > performance in a real-world situation. > > > > You know what they say: Your Mileage May Vary (YMMV) > > > > > Non-cached dat

Re: [opensuse] Revolution in networking - possible ?

2007-06-01 Thread Rajko M.
On Friday 01 June 2007 20:03, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Friday 01 June 2007 17:47, Rajko M. wrote: > > On Friday 01 June 2007 17:36, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > You saw a carefully crafted demo. Don't assume you'd see similar > > > performance in a real-world situation. > > > > > > You know wh

Re: [opensuse] Revolution in networking - possible ?

2007-06-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 01 June 2007 18:57, Rajko M. wrote: > ... > > I can't barely see difference on pretty good sized broadband, but > someone on dialup should see substantial difference to similar pages, > and the most important with Linux you don't need external software. It was definitely a dial-up-only s

Re: [opensuse] Revolution in networking - possible ?

2007-06-02 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 01 June 2007, Randall R Schulz wrote: > You saw a carefully crafted demo. Don't assume you'd see similar > performance in a real-world situation. What do you call "Real World"? Cisco is not about to try to sell something with fraudulent demos. After all, they do stand behind their produ