Latency is the bane of my existence. Latency is the kind of thing you just can’t typically fix when you’re talking site-to-site communications. But you can mitigate it. These days I’m experimenting around with a variety of WAN optimization tool kits, from Riverbed’s Steelhead appliances to F5 to various open source offerings. For SMB/CIFS the various offerings can be pretty cool. Most products require an appliance at both ends to do proper optimization, but I like that Riverbed has a client app that can run on the Mac. Having said that, nothing seems to really optimize AFP the same way that SMB can be optimized. Maybe there isn’t a market for it… I’m still looking for a good product for that…
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