gbaker
Member
Dear All
Further to a previous thread, I would be very interested in hearing
about peoples thoughts on WAN connection vs WEB connections between remote sites using Citrix.
Obviously a WAN connection using Frame relay between 2 countries on
different sides of the world has lots of benefits. It is pretty much fully
controllable, you know what bandwidth you have and the performance of the link is fairly manageable. However it can be expensive!!
With a WEB connection using VPN the cost is significantly lower, however there are a number of issues relating to performance and reliability.
Our experience has been that once a connection has been made using VPN over the web, the performance is pretty reasonable, and definitely 'Business Usable' dependant on the number of users etc. However we have found that the reliability of the connection is terrible.
At times the connection drops out and can not be re-established for lengthy periods of time. This has been found to be the result of one or more of the jumps between different servers of the providers being re-routed. We have seen that an internet connection between Europe and Australia can have up to 30 jumps. All it needs is for a company to re-route their connections in the 'Internet cloud' and the result is that Citrix client stops responding and may eventually drop the connection.
I am very interested to hear from anyone about their experiences setting up 'Business usable' connections of Citrix via the WEB using VPN
Best regards
Graham Baker
The Yalumba Wine Company
One World Xe update 3, SP 19.1, Oracle 8.1.6 all on Win2000
Graham Baker
IS Software Manager
The Yalumba Wine Company
Further to a previous thread, I would be very interested in hearing
about peoples thoughts on WAN connection vs WEB connections between remote sites using Citrix.
Obviously a WAN connection using Frame relay between 2 countries on
different sides of the world has lots of benefits. It is pretty much fully
controllable, you know what bandwidth you have and the performance of the link is fairly manageable. However it can be expensive!!
With a WEB connection using VPN the cost is significantly lower, however there are a number of issues relating to performance and reliability.
Our experience has been that once a connection has been made using VPN over the web, the performance is pretty reasonable, and definitely 'Business Usable' dependant on the number of users etc. However we have found that the reliability of the connection is terrible.
At times the connection drops out and can not be re-established for lengthy periods of time. This has been found to be the result of one or more of the jumps between different servers of the providers being re-routed. We have seen that an internet connection between Europe and Australia can have up to 30 jumps. All it needs is for a company to re-route their connections in the 'Internet cloud' and the result is that Citrix client stops responding and may eventually drop the connection.
I am very interested to hear from anyone about their experiences setting up 'Business usable' connections of Citrix via the WEB using VPN
Best regards
Graham Baker
The Yalumba Wine Company
One World Xe update 3, SP 19.1, Oracle 8.1.6 all on Win2000
Graham Baker
IS Software Manager
The Yalumba Wine Company
