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[Veritas-bu] compression to disk staging unit

2006-05-23 16:22:40
Subject: [Veritas-bu] compression to disk staging unit
From: danno at internet2.edu (Dan Pritts)
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 16:22:40 -0400
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 03:50:58AM -0400, bob944 wrote:
> > link.  Even on a WAN many WAN routers use compression to improve 
> > throughput.
> 
> I never thought of this.  Cool.  Do you have an example that I can
> study?

Google for "WAN Acceleration"

these appliances typically use many techniques to make your applications
perform better across a WAN - compression is the obvious one.  They also
do things like faking the responses to chatty protocols like M$ RPC.

danno