Re: OT: Is WAAS that bad?

Types of problems our customer ran into was primarily corrupted writes
to CIFS network drives. Also because of some Windows patches being
rolled out on a corporate scale combined with some internal WAAS bugs
the customer had troubles accessing those network drives and some
applications. So they ended up upgrading the bandwidth where it was
possible and disabling WAAS.

We still run it on our South Pacific links (mostly satellite ones) and
it is somehow useful. And we are still on version 4.2.3b which is kind
of hard to upgrade overnight across the large installation base and a
strict change control, so it is dragging along slowly.

In our case it is a combination of customer-specific environment and
WAAS version deployed which causes some grief. I look forward to upgrade
to version 5 to see the difference.

A.

On 9/3/2012 9:04 AM, Alexander Lim wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 articlehttp://m.networkworld.com/community/blog/cisco-finally-shows-waas-app-nav-cisco-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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