Re: Andros Island Connectivity?

[Warren Bailey <wbailey () satelliteintelligencegroup com>]

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Seastrom! ;)

On 4/30/13 7:02 PM, "Joel M Snyder" <jms () opus1 com> wrote:

> > Protracted discussion (and promotion) has glossed over one key point:
> >
> > > > None of the people on-site are technical, and all their data is
> > > > accessed
> > > > via RDP on a server in the United States.
> >
> > They will not be happy with VSAT latency (typically 700ms though
> > physics says you can never do better than 550, and that's for the
> > space segment alone) if they are running RDP, VNC, Citrix, or similar
> > technologies.  Sorry for being a buzzkill, Warren.  :)
>
> Actually, Citrix (in particular) works quite well over satellite
> latencies.  The network project I'm working on right now is wrapping up
> an app rollout to about 100 countries, many of which we can only reach
> via VSAT.  Testing showed that Citrix performance is much better for
> AJAX-y web apps than pure HTTP.
>
> Citrix has a bunch of intelligence built-in specifically to deal with
> issues related to high-latency/low-bandwidth circuits, including local
> mouse, local echo, click/movement aggregation into large packets, and of
> course compression-before-encryption.  It's not quite Memorex, but it's
> very usable.
>
> I'd be happy to share the data with anyone who is interested; I also
> showed that F5 Big-IP load balancers can make really horrible ERP apps
> (*ahem* Oracle eBusiness *cough* *cough* *cough*) work a lot better as
> well, if you decide not to use Citrix.
>
> jms
>
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