Re: ISP Shaping Hardware

[Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>]

On 20/10/2014 11:12, Roland Dobbins wrote:
> Is QoS in the network infrastructure coupled with strictly-enforced quotas
> insufficient to needs?

for satellite, no.

> These permanently-inline boxes and blades that dork around with general
> Internet traffic to/from eyeball networks can be a support/troubleshooting
> headache . . .

s/headache/nightmare/

The high latency and bandwidth costs on satellite connections are a world
of pain.  It should show how awful things are when you can actually improve
things by installing inline bandwidth accelerators and traffic shapers.

Nick