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Re: Packet shaping / bandwidth enforcement
From: Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 10:03:35 -0500
Vincent Stoffer wrote:
We are in the process of looking at replacing our aging and bandwidth crunched Packetshaper. I am curious what others are using, especially if you went from a Packetshaper to something else. I'm aware of the NetEqualizer, the NetEnforcer and the Procera Packetlogic. Any thoughts from users of these products and/or any other devices or solutions people have come up with? I'm especially interested in how you handle redundancy/failure of such a device at your site.
When our Packetshaper 8500 was nearing end of support, I started demoing alternatives. We have 2800 students, fully residential, and just under 1000 staff. Our connection is two DS3 links, just commodity Internet. I feel we still need to do some application management, we can't get sufficient performance with dynamic partitioning alone. After a little playing around with the Procera unit, I stopped looking. It does the job well, support has been very responsive, the price was comparable, and the box is speedy to work with. The number of identified applications/traffic classes is now around 900. I'm still learning the best way to use it, as it's rather different than the Packetshaper. The (low-volume) mailing list of Packetlogic users can be found at pktlogic-edu () oberlin edu ;-) We've never had the budget to really look at HA configurations. Both Packeteer and Procera have been swift in sending us replacement units (our first demo Packetlogic was bounced around a bit in shipment), and we expect to suffer through a bit and wait it out should the box fail. (Of course there's still the old Packetshaper on the shelf...) -- Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species. -- Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College Mudd Library, x.56930 -- CIT will NEVER ask you for your password! www.calfrye.com, www.pitalabs.com "The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. --George Eliot.
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- Packet shaping / bandwidth enforcement Vincent Stoffer (Feb 05)
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- Re: Packet shaping / bandwidth enforcement Michael Cole (Feb 05)
- Re: Packet shaping / bandwidth enforcement Brent Sweeny (Feb 05)
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- Re: Packet shaping / bandwidth enforcement Cal Frye (Feb 06)
- Re: Packet shaping / bandwidth enforcement Michael J. Wheeler (Feb 06)
- Re: Packet shaping / bandwidth enforcement Michael Cole (Feb 06)
- Re: Packet shaping / bandwidth enforcement Cal Frye (Feb 06)