Hello Paul,
> Technical question Scott
Sorry for those following this thread that are not technical ... I know that some of these do get technical, but hopefully they in someway help to explain a little of what business Novell is in ...
> Can Bordermanager do anything for a company like PCQuotes or on
> line trading companies like Watley?
I like this one ... and I have already investigating! The answer is Yes, or Maybe ... it depends on the architecture of their software.
For example, PointCast benefits a lot from BorderManager, both through acceleration and caching ... because PointCast uses HTTP as it's primary transport mechanism. (HTTP is the protocol that makes the Web work!) So I can configure PointCast to use our Department BorderManager, which uses our corporate BorderManager so that all of the employees at Novell who use PointCast don't individually, and repeatedly, get fetch the same data. Only one machine on the T3 fetches the HTML information ... the rest of us are updated via the internal 10Mb and 100Mb lines!
If these applications use standard HTTP, the answer is "Yes" ... BorderManager can enhance these products today!
If they are using HTTP in other ways, or they are using another standard application protocol then the answer is "Maybe" ...
I have already forwarded requests to both of these companies and will have a more definitive answer for you!
Oh yes, more detail about our installation ... on our department BorderManager we are seeing 50% of *all* requests serviced from cache! That means we've already eliminated half the traffic of these users from having to go out through our Internet connection ... this is bottom-line bandwidth savings!
And with NDS (a real directory service!) you could make a rule in BorderManager that *none* of these services can be used in the company, during certain hours, except by certain people ... or departments, etc.
Content and Object Routing ... with Access Control! BorderManager!
;-)
Scott C. Lemon |
