From: Ina&Laurean (ina.laurean@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2008 - 18:24:26 ART
I have a large Riverbed implementation with more than 50 boxes across
multiple sites.
During our initial test Riverbed was faster then WAAS on some test but on
other WAAS was faster then Riverbed, overall Riverbed performed better than
WAAS in more tests so the decision was to go with Riverbed.
If you have a complex environment don't get fooled by their marketing and by
the plug and play approach; you have to be very careful with routing and you
have to manually configure routes on the Riverbed. Also if you have firewall
and PBR you have to be very careful where you place your box because
Riverbed is tunnelling everything through TCP 7800 as compared to WAAS which
is has transparency. From what I heard on RiOS 5.0 Riverbed will have
transparency as well.
Another thing where I didn't agree with Riverbed was about using the same
physical box across redundant paths, their recommendation was to put a
single box with multiple NICs across all paths and the Riverbed will do the
job. I am sure it works my concern was what if the Riverbed goes down.
According to Riverbed their boxes never completely fail and if there is a
problem the Riverbed goes in bypass mode where all the traffic it will be
forwarded without acceleration. Fortunately I followed my instinct and my
experience and I used different hardware boxes on redundant paths, later
on I was proved right because I've had situations where the box just failed
and stopped all the traffic.
Overall the Riverbeds are doing a good job, saving lots of bandwidth,
accelerating traffic and improving response for the end user so I can say I
am pleased even though requires more maintenance than initially estimated.
Laurean
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:47 PM, raul raul <juvenn@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Group ;
> Cisco loses to Riverbed in WAN optimization bake-off.
>
> http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/23604?page=1&t51hb=
>
> Anybody have any idea on this product ? it seem superb on their marketing
> strategy .
>
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