Riverbed Steelhead and Juniper WX Part II – When a Tunnel Is Not a Tunnel

21 November 2012 by 5 Comments
TCP Headers

In my previous post "Getting Nerdy about WAN optimisation", I discussed some of the basics of WAN optimisation and how the … [Read more...]

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Riverbed Steelhead vs. Juniper WX Part I – Getting Nerdy About WAN Optimisation

14 November 2012 by 6 Comments
Off-Path vs. In-Path Interception

After numerous false starts, begging, cajoling and a minor tantrum, I finally got myself on a Riverbed Steelhead training … [Read more...]

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Infineta and Parallelization, Part 1

2 May 2012 by 1 Comment
infineta-pics

1. Opinions are like... In the past 5 years I've participated in three proper evaluations of WAN acceleration products. … [Read more...]

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Buy One Steelhead, Get One Free: Creative Use of VRFs With Inline Deployment

27 December 2011 by 4 Comments
Riverbed Setup with second vrf PASSTHRU

Below is a very generic WAN diagram.  It consists of L3 MPLS links in blue and point-to-point links in red.  Not all these … [Read more...]

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