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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 --- 66 days ago http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/164587.aspx
| A few years back I was working for a large multinational company and a large part of my responsibilities revolved around the provision of wide area networking services to the company.
One day an application developer comes to me and says he'd like to see how his client-server application performs when the user is accessing it from a different country. The application is currently installed on a minicomputer right here in Brussels.
So I tell him I can set up a loopback through one of our foreign offices so his comms will bounce off their site.
Being observant he points out that that would involve two international hops and so would give an unfair portayal of the reponse of his app.
Okay then, I suggest we can get a tame user in a foreign office to connect to his app in Brussels and tell us how it performs. But that's no good because he really wants to see the performance for himself.
Well then, we can send his application (on 3/4" mag tape) to a foreign site and get them to install it there. He can connect from Brussels and see for himself how it performs. That's not acceptable though because the foreign host might not have the same characteristics as our Brussels hosts. And besides, it'd be a lot of hassle to get his app installed somewhere else.
Well then he'll just have to go to a foreign site and logon from there to the Brussels host and see for himself how the app performs. After all, Amsterdam is only a two hour ... |
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