[j-nsp] Finally...

[Phil Pierotti]

The sad thing is that despite the *many and various* content-delivery
networks around, these vendors do not see it (decent speed downloads
for software updates) as a priority for their business.

A ten second search in your-favorite-source-of-knowledge yields *lots*
of "we do this already, for software vendors, including authentication
and security".

It is literally a no-brainer, there is absolutely no excuse for poor
download performance of software/firmware updates from hardwawe
vendors.

Phil P

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Kevin Loch <kloch at kl.net> wrote:
> Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 06:46:01PM +0100, Malte von dem Hagen wrote:
>>>
>>> You're right, that suck0rz big time. In 2010, one isn't used to having
>>> to wait for a download the time it takes to get a cup of coffee AND to
>>> empty it (this even works for the litre-buckets some of my colleagues
>>> use as mugs).
>>>
>>> I always wonder why of all companies network manufacturers have such
>>> bad internet connectivity (C and B aren't much better than J...).
>>> Maybe they need a good hosting ISP? I'd be glad to help ;-)
>>
>> Oh trust me vendor B/F is so much worse. Not only to they host their
>> download server off a DSL line, but they limit the simultanious
>> connections to 1 per IP. You can't even go browsing for other software
>> or download the release notes while you wait for your first download to
>> finish. And at least Juniper hasn't pulled a Cisco-style move and
>> required javascript to download files.
>
> There is no excuse for that in 2010 (or even 2000). If they don't have
> the capacity or expertise to host sufficient download capacity in house
> then they should contract that out to someone who does.
>
> I wonder if they would require the download servers to be behind
> some other vendor's routers/switches so they can serve the cricital
> update that has their hardware falling over :)
>
> -Kevin
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