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Re: Bandwidth Savings


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:58:49 -0500

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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