RE: OT: Is WAAS that bad?

Having worked with both WAAS and Riverbed, WAAS 5 brings Cisco back to a
decent position - they have traditionally been behind on most things that
Riverbed has done. Inline versus OOB - depends on the design / traffic. I
personally am not a fan of having to use WCCP. With WCCP you need to make
sure you have the proper rules on both ends to ensure symmetric
optimization. With inline you need to worry about throughput and proper
wiring for fail-open.

Do keep in mind that there are certain protocols / traffic types that wan
acceleration can and cannot optimize. An example of this would be SQL
(Oracle, MSSQL, MySql). Both vendors claim a much lower optimization than
say CIFS, FTP, etc. Dynamic content is difficult to optimize and you really
just see the benefits with TCP optimization - even using the compression
doesn't do all that much on text outputs from a DB call.

T

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Alexander Lim
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 4:05 PM
To: alexeim73_at_gmail.com
Cc: Cisco certification
Subject: Re: OT: Is WAAS that bad?

Hi Alexei,

Based on your exp, does SteelHead have problem with WCCP? And is its
transparent mode working as good as tunnel mode?

Regards,
Alexander Lim

On 1 Sep, 2012, at 7:43 PM, Alexei Monastyrnyi <alexeim73_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Comparing to Riverbed WAAS is absolutely behind... first hand
> experience
from rolling out and supporting both on large scale.
>
> A>
>
>
> On 9/1/2012 3:29 PM, Alexander Lim wrote:
>> Hi Experts,
>>
>> While looking for some comparison between Cisco WAAS and Riverbed
SteelHead, I found this article
http://m.networkworld.com/community/blog/cisco-finally-shows-waas-app-nav-ci
s
co-live-0. Is it telling the truth? Is Cisco WAAS really that bad? What do
you guys use in your network?
>>
>> Thanks for sharing.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alex
>>
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