Good 'ol Warren, sure knows how to make friends and influence people. -r
Warren Bailey <wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> writes: > Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Seastrom! ;) > > On 4/30/13 7:02 PM, "Joel M Snyder" <j...@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 >> >>-- >>Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 >>Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 >>j...@opus1.com http://www.opus1.com/jms >> >>
