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Re: ISP Shaping Hardware
From: Vlade Ristevski <vristevs () ramapo edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:20:55 -0400
We've used a few over the years. We had Packeteer Packetshapers originally but they became way too expensive once Bluecoat acquired them. $50,000 for an appliance to shape a 1 gig pipe. IIRC,$10,000 per year on maintenance at the time. These prices are after discount.We looked at the following to replace them.
NetEqualizer Procera ExindaWe went with Exinda and I like the solution. These days, I rely on it more for reporting and traffic/protocol analysis than for shaping, but the shaping does work as advertised. Keep in mind, these solutions can't shape on asymmetric traffic since they need to see the entire flow. If you have a pair of links, you'll need to cluster a pair of shapers so they can share flow information.
I also have tested out the traffic shaping on PFSense VMs and it works. I never pushed production traffic through them but my home firewall is a PFSense VM and the shaping works there. Not sure how it would handle a large number of clients though.
On 10/20/2014 12:55 AM, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
Hey all, Just wondering what/if people are using any shaping hardware/appliances these days, and if so, what. I have a client which has thousands of customers on Satellite and needs to restrict some users who are doing a lot. So I wanted to see what the current popular equipment out there is. ...Skeeve *Skeeve Stevens - *eintellego Networks Pty Ltd skeeve () eintellegonetworks com ; www.eintellegonetworks.com Phone: 1300 239 038; Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; skype://skeeve facebook.com/eintellegonetworks ; <http://twitter.com/networkceoau> linkedin.com/in/skeeve experts360: https://expert360.com/profile/d54a9 twitter.com/theispguy ; blog: www.theispguy.com The Experts Who The Experts Call Juniper - Cisco - Cloud - Consulting - IPv4 Brokering
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