Typical additional latency for CGN?

Sun Oct 7 21:30:09 UTC 2012

I think you've confused CGN with CDN.

On Sun, 7 Oct 2012, George Herbert wrote:

> Ancedotally, for users of an e-gadget company's website, cellphone
> company's outbound web proxies, internet games company, and
> image-intensive home furnishings website, the CGNs delivered content
> faster than the main website could, regardless of increasing its
> bandwidth.  Latency problems with the CGNs were less than the main
> websites' latency problems, on the average.
>
> There were days that was not true, and days we had to re-re-re-reset
> the CGN contents, and the day the @#$#@$% game programmers screwed up
> the CGN calls, but on the whole it was among the least performance
> limiting / impeding features of the sites in question.
>
>
> -george
>
> On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Tom Limoncelli <tal at whatexit.org> wrote:
>> Have there been studies on how much latency CGN adds to a typical
>> internet user?   I'd also be interested in anecdotes.
>>
>> I've seen theoretical predictions but by now we should have
>> measurements from early-world deployments.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
>>
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>
>
>
> -- 
> -george william herbert
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