Riverbed Steal Head 1020 WAN Accelerator

摘要

WAN connectivity has always been a concern for every enterprise. The bandwidth in India is not too costly today but it's not that cheap yet either. The availability of high speed bandwidth in India is still limited and is mostly restricted to Class A and B cities. Being a vast country geographically, whenever we talk about multi-city connectivity, the latency due to the distance becomes a major concern. We might keep spending money and upgrading bandwidth, but we generally tend to forget that we cannot reduce the distance between the two disparate locations and hence cannot reduce the latency between them. Our experience suggests that if you double the link speed and at the same time increase the latency to five times, then the actual data transfer speed remains near about the same. So, there are two critical factors responsible for a slow WAN: bandwidth (if it's not enough for the requirement) and latency. This WAN accelerator is capable of managing both.