Hi,

I'm searching for a tutorial to find a WAN accelerator solution.
The network environment is CISCO and I also want to implement a CISCO
solution.
Are there any solution guides ?
I search the CISCO side but I can't find any good tutorials

The reason why I would like to implenent  this, there are several
performance problems while working over WAN lines (T1) with MS office
product. 

thanks
udo

You may wish to investigate Cisco Wide Area Application Engine (WAE)
Appliances.

Provide high-performance access to applications, storage, and content
across your WAN using the Cisco Wide-Area Application Engine (WAE)
portfolio of scalable, low-cost network appliances.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6474/index.html

For more information, call your local Cisco Pre-Sales Office:

http://www.bradreese.com/contact-us.htm#CISCO

Sincerely,

Brad Reese
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I really wouldn't limit yourself to the Cisco product range for WAN
acceleration.  There are a lot of other vendors which have been in this
market space for a long time and have far more experience in this
field.

Ulitmately, with WAN acceleration, you should evaluate several products
in a lab environment and if possible, using your real data.

I have worked with Junipers WX platform (formerly Peribit), Expand and
Riverbed.  I have also heard really good things about Tacit (recently
aquired by Packeteer).

James

James wrote:
> I really wouldn't limit yourself to the Cisco product range for WAN
> acceleration.  There are a lot of other vendors which have been in this
> market space for a long time and have far more experience in this
> field.
>
> Ulitmately, with WAN acceleration, you should evaluate several products
> in a lab environment and if possible, using your real data.
>
> I have worked with Junipers WX platform (formerly Peribit), Expand and
> Riverbed.  I have also heard really good things about Tacit (recently
> aquired by Packeteer).

As discussed you should evaluate in your environment with
something like nistnet (freeware) to create bandwidth limitations
AND latency. I have seen Tacit and it works pretty nicely for
file shares. If you are doing MS office (Word, Excel, whatever) file
opens saves, etc then it is nice. There are I suspect issues with
Access
databases for example.

Many of these vendors will give you a 1 month trial against
a purchase order (or even without).

We got a free trial from Tacit and went with them. There are a
lot of articles on the web.

I have the idea that Riverbed look very strong but they wouldn't
give us a free trial (without a PO) and we had already done a
lot of work with Tacit and the business were demanding a solution.

We get the occasional problem but it's a LOT better than not having it.

Our issue is latency not bandwidth.

Cisco have a set of test macros that might help. I now forget
what they do exactly. IIRC when Tacit found out that I was
using Cisco tools on their kit they whipped out their own tools
and left me to play with them too.

Oh yes, Cisco have a pre-built nistnet CD. I had already got nistnet
working so I didn't use it.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6469/products_installation_and_configuration_guide09186a00804965c9.html
WAFS Benchmark.

I couldn't say enough good things about the Riverbed products.  We use
them here at work.



On 25 Sep 2006 05:01:18 -0700, "udo" <ukonstantin@cityweb.de> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm searching for a tutorial to find a WAN accelerator solution.
>The network environment is CISCO and I also want to implement a CISCO
>solution.
>Are there any solution guides ?
>I search the CISCO side but I can't find any good tutorials
>
>The reason why I would like to implenent  this, there are several
>performance problems while working over WAN lines (T1) with MS office
>product. 
>
>thanks
>udo