Thursday, January 11, 2018

Tips and advice for managing Satellite Connections

Currently have multiple sites with high latency + low bandwidth connection connected back to the head office via a colo router where the VPN terminates.

Very few sites have wan accelerators.

I'm looking into optimizing these connections but need to have a strategy that isn't cost prohibitive.

Common protocols are SMB2, MAPI, HTTP + HTTPS, AD Services - your standard windows AD environment.

Optimizations I've considered:

1) I've been reading that Server 2012 and up and Windows 8.1 and up have TCP windowing optimizations that may help

2) HTTP based front end for the SMB file servers

3) Lower cost WAN optimizers such as WANOS

4) Reducing AD replication bandwidth

5) Using RDP services or Citrix for web browsing

I'd love to hear your suggestions!



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