Taming the Beast
The 10000 was a welcome test unit on the university network. The PacketShaper 8500 we currently use struggles almost daily on an OC-3 connection that truly sees it all. With several thousand college students on this Internet link, the 8500 frequently shows signs of being overwhelmed by peer-to-peer traffic and huge volumes of tiny packets that each count against the box's available flow-count capacity. Typical symptoms we look for include slothlike Internet connections and copious complaints by our thousands of users.
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
