• Consulting,  Network Infrastructure

    WAN Optimization

    Latency is the bane of my existence.  Latency is the kind of thing you just can’t typically fix when you’re talking site-to-site communications.  But you can mitigate it.  These days I’m experimenting around with a variety of WAN optimization tool kits, from Riverbed’s Steelhead appliances to F5 to various open source offerings.  For SMB/CIFS the various offerings can be pretty cool.  Most products require an appliance at both ends to do proper optimization, but I like that Riverbed has a client app that can run on the Mac.  Having said that, nothing seems to really optimize AFP the same way that SMB can be optimized.  Maybe there isn’t a market…