WAN links can be expensive and unless you have a lot of money to shell out it is likely that you don't have dedicated gigabit bandwidth available to you - so it makes sense to optimize the performance in any way we can.
While there are dozens and dozens of different solutions out there all offering similar results I chose WANOS (http://wanos.co) since it seems to be fairly well established product and provides a reasonable pricing model - either free (with limited support) or paid (with support and updates.)
WANOS can also be downloaded as a virtual appliance enabling me to lab it up nice and easily!
I have outlined a few of the main / interesting features of WANOS below:
- Packet Loss Recovery: Ensures that data is delivered reliability over the LAN.
- Universal Deduplication: Provides cross-flow deduplication on byte patterns (hence is protocol independent)
- Compression: Compresses data on the fly which is going over the WAN link
- Quality of Service: Provides features such as traffic shaping, tagging and classification.
The lab will consist of two sites (A and B) which go over a capped WAN link of 10mbps.
To be continued...
http://openmaniak.com/wanem_network.php
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