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830-01 · Question #55

Company X has many offshore oil rigs they want to bring optimization to. The only available connection is through a satellite that has frequent bursts of packet loss. There are very few users per…

The correct answer is D. Deploy Steelhead appliances with MX-TCP to deal with the loss. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

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Company X has many offshore oil rigs they want to bring optimization to. The only available connection is through a satellite that has frequent bursts of packet loss. There are very few users per rig and HTTPS-based SharePoint performance is so poor they often time out pulling down even a small file. CIFS often does not work at all. They are considering the Steelhead Mobile solution to solve this problem. You suggest they deploy a Steelhead in-path at the data center and: to overcome the loss

Options

  • ASteelhead Mobile with FEC turned on to help with lossy links
  • BSteelhead Mobile with HS-TCP configuration
  • CSteelhead Mobile running MX-TCP to deal with the loss
  • DDeploy Steelhead appliances with MX-TCP to deal with the loss
  • EDeploy Steelhead appliances with HS-TCP, Window Scaling, fixed-target rules, and TCP New Reno

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  • A
    6% (2)
  • B
    16% (5)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    72% (23)
  • E
    3% (1)

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