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Bandwidth Savings
- Subject: Bandwidth Savings
- From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu)
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:58:49 -0500
- In-reply-to: <CAPzphhNDGjhHa+SySEKowB_m92e=f+7DDvMdLDCa4Umvi+5-Ow@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 23:08:45 -0500, Keenan Singh said:
> do have a Layer 2 Circuit between the Island and Miami, I am seeing there
> are WAN Accelerators where they would put a Server on either end and sort
> of Compress and decompress the Traffic before it goes over the Layer 2, I
> have never used this before, has any one here used anything like this, what
Those will probably not help a lot with https: data, as a properly encrypted
stream is very close to random bits and thus not very compressible.
As others have noted, your best chances are getting content providers to give
you a local cache of their most popular content.
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