Wednesday
Sep192007
WAN Acceleration - And we're off to the races...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 6:45AM
The Riverbed Experience - Day 1
The install of the Riverbed hardware was unbelievably simple. Within 10 minutes I had the first box setup (with Riverbed's help) and installed in the rack. We pre-configured the other three boxes and send them out to the specific sites.
The Juniper Experience - Day 1
Juniper's WXC boxes had a fairly simple setup process as well. The downside to the Juniper setup was while there was a wizard, there are around 23 steps to set it up. These steps were simple but were still unneccesary screens to click through. In addition, the screens were not as intuitive as the Steelhead's screens. In Junper's defense, the WXC was able to offer a much better selection of QOS settings than the Riverbed appliance. This could be very helpful in today's networks especially if you are planning an MPLS meshed network soon.
The install of the Riverbed hardware was unbelievably simple. Within 10 minutes I had the first box setup (with Riverbed's help) and installed in the rack. We pre-configured the other three boxes and send them out to the specific sites.
The Juniper Experience - Day 1
Juniper's WXC boxes had a fairly simple setup process as well. The downside to the Juniper setup was while there was a wizard, there are around 23 steps to set it up. These steps were simple but were still unneccesary screens to click through. In addition, the screens were not as intuitive as the Steelhead's screens. In Junper's defense, the WXC was able to offer a much better selection of QOS settings than the Riverbed appliance. This could be very helpful in today's networks especially if you are planning an MPLS meshed network soon.
Reader Comments (4)
Good info. We never use the Riverbed to mark packets for QoS. We let the WAN router connected to MPLS do that. No reason to have the WAN accelerator mark packets. They are have those features in there for marketing reasons and rare occasions.
Justin Lofton
Systems Engineer
Tredent Data Systems, Inc.
justinl@tredent.com
http://www.tredent.com ">http://www.tredent.com
Good info. We never use the Riverbed to mark packets for QoS. We let the WAN router connected to MPLS do that. No reason to have the WAN accelerator mark packets. They are have those features in there for marketing reasons and rare occasions.
Justin Lofton
Systems Engineer
Tredent Data Systems, Inc.
justinl@tredent.com
http://www.tredent.com
We don't plan on using the Riverbed to mark packets with QOS tags either but it was a nice feature that Juniper offered to its users. It's a bit friendlier for tagging traffic than Cisco IOS is and this is especially useful if your routers are managed by a carrier like many companies today are beginning to do.
We don't plan on using the Riverbed to mark packets with QOS tags either but it was a nice feature that Juniper offered to its users. It's a bit friendlier for tagging traffic than Cisco IOS is and this is especially useful if your routers are managed by a carrier like many companies today are beginning to do.