The sad thing is that despite the *many and various* content-delivery
networks around, these vendors do not see it (decent speed downloads
for software updates) as a priority for their business.
A ten second search in your-favorite-source-of-knowledge yields *lots*
of we do this already, for software vendors, including authentication
and security.
It is literally a no-brainer, there is absolutely no excuse for poor
download performance of software/firmware updates from hardwawe
vendors.
Phil P
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Kevin Loch kl...@kl.net wrote:
Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 06:46:01PM +0100, Malte von dem Hagen wrote:
You're right, that suck0rz big time. In 2010, one isn't used to having
to wait for a download the time it takes to get a cup of coffee AND to
empty it (this even works for the litre-buckets some of my colleagues
use as mugs).
I always wonder why of all companies network manufacturers have such
bad internet connectivity (C and B aren't much better than J...).
Maybe they need a good hosting ISP? I'd be glad to help ;-)
Oh trust me vendor B/F is so much worse. Not only to they host their
download server off a DSL line, but they limit the simultanious
connections to 1 per IP. You can't even go browsing for other software
or download the release notes while you wait for your first download to
finish. And at least Juniper hasn't pulled a Cisco-style move and
required javascript to download files.
There is no excuse for that in 2010 (or even 2000). If they don't have
the capacity or expertise to host sufficient download capacity in house
then they should contract that out to someone who does.
I wonder if they would require the download servers to be behind
some other vendor's routers/switches so they can serve the cricital
update that has their hardware falling over :)
-Kevin
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