How we did it

We installed a pair of SR-100s, in combination with up to four SR-50s attached as compression subprocessors, on our lab's six-segment Fast Ethernet network. Each segment consists of a server and 25 clients, all connected to the Internet via T-1 and frame relay lines. Routers and back-to-back DSU/CSUs connected the segments to each other with 56K, 128K, 256K, 512K or 1.544M bit/sec Committed Information Rate frame relay links and full T-1 and T-3 links. We also used a Nokia DSLAM and Efficient Networks' Speedstream 5851 DSL modems to create secondary parallel data paths between segments. We ran Peribit's central device management console software on a 256M-byte RAM, 6G-byte hard disk Windows XP-based Dell Inspiron 5000. To access Peribit's Web-based configuration and reports interface, we used Internet Explorer 6.0.

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We installed a pair of SR-100s, in combination with up to four SR-50s attached as compression subprocessors, on our lab's six-segment Fast Ethernet network. Each segment consists of a server and 25 clients, all connected to the Internet via T-1 and frame relay lines. Routers and back-to-back DSU/CSUs connected the segments to each other with 56K, 128K, 256K, 512K or 1.544M bit/sec Committed Information Rate frame relay links and full T-1 and T-3 links. We also used a Nokia DSLAM and Efficient Networks' Speedstream 5851 DSL modems to create secondary parallel data paths between segments. We ran Peribit's central device management console software on a 256M-byte RAM, 6G-byte hard disk Windows XP-based Dell Inspiron 5000. To access Peribit's Web-based configuration and reports interface, we used Internet Explorer 6.0.

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