Re: Typical additional latency for CGN?

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

Of all the problems CGN creates, I would think that latency is in the noise
compared to the other issues.

Owen

On Oct 7, 2012, at 1:56 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com> wrote:

> Ancedotally, for users of an e-gadget company's website, cellphone
> company's outbound web proxies, internet games company, and
> image-intensive home furnishings website, the CGNs delivered content
> faster than the main website could, regardless of increasing its
> bandwidth.  Latency problems with the CGNs were less than the main
> websites' latency problems, on the average.
>
> There were days that was not true, and days we had to re-re-re-reset
> the CGN contents, and the day the @#$#@$% game programmers screwed up
> the CGN calls, but on the whole it was among the least performance
> limiting / impeding features of the sites in question.
>
>
> -george
>
> On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Tom Limoncelli <tal () whatexit org> wrote:
> > Have there been studies on how much latency CGN adds to a typical
> > internet user?   I'd also be interested in anecdotes.
> >
> > I've seen theoretical predictions but by now we should have
> > measurements from early-world deployments.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
> >
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