It is time for an old fashion throw down between Cisco, Riverbed, Juniper and Blue Coat
The challenge: Bring your “A” game to Interop and compete against other vendors in the WAN Acceleration Arena, the Applications Acceleration Arena, the Disaster Recovery Arena and the Mobile Accelerations Arena.
The Place: The Big Show and that would be Interop in Las Vegas for all to see.
We will select the equipment used from each vendor, this will be based on the amount of users and expected TCP connections that we would have in our test network. It will be between a data center and local office in our test network. Also we will have a mobile client test working off this same set up going back to the data center.
We will ask each vendor to help with marketing, set up, equipment and monetary fees to establish a location at Interop. We will allow each vendor to set up their own equipment on this test network, run a few tests and then hand it over to us for our test runs. We will work with all vendors on a test scenario that will be used for all vendors in the tests. We want this to be one test and fair to all.
As a reader what tests would you like to see, what applications used and what overall results would you like to see?
Now the big question is which vendor will respond to us and accept the challenge? We will let you know who responds and who does not. I am looking for a response from each vendor to me by Friday. I am going to send this article to each vendor myself to make sure they get it.
