[c-nsp] About WAAS and File Sharing

[Tim Franklin]

> Hi Guys, I'm testing WAAS performance with sharing Word and pdf files,
> and it is working as I expected. But when I share an *.exe file or
> *.bin file the result is not the same. I can't see any improvement.
> Please help me to understand that. Waas works nice with data files
> (word, power point, pdf, txt, etc) and not with *.bin or *.exe files?

You'll typically get better compression on docs than executables.

What's your latency like between sites?  If you're already low-latency, most of the WAAS benefit is going to come from data compression (I'm including DRE here, as well as the LZ), so if you have low-compression files...

Regards,
Tim.