Internet Myth #4: Upload Performance Always Stinks!
Chris Keene over at Teridion just posted his fourth installment on debunking common Internet performance myths. This week’s myth is: “Upload Performance Always Stinks!” His post follows below:
Reality: Internet upload performance can be accelerated by 10 to 20x
Internet overlay networks to optimize download performance (CDNs) have been around for a long time and can provide 2X faster page load times for static content. As web pages get larger (bigger than Doom) and more dynamic (js payloads growing 50% per year), new overlay networks are needed to accelerate uploads and dynamic download.
These new overlay networks take two approaches:
- Edge security offload: traditional CDNs can perform SSL handshaking at the edge close to the end user to improve performance.
- Edge routing: new virtual network vendors can optimize routing and transport between the end user and the origin web site to improve throughput by 2-3X.
Teridion is a virtual network that optimizes Internet throughput for dynamic content. Teridion works by avoiding BGP routing congestion and optimizing TCP content transfer:
- Faster BGP path: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes data between ISPs along the lowest cost path and has no way to avoid congested paths.
- More efficient TCP transfer: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) sacrifices performance to achieve reliability.
Learn more about optimizing end-to-end Internet throughput:
- Missed the previous three “Internet Performance Myths?” Start with “Myth #1: The Speed of Light Explains Poor Performance”
- Check out “The Internet Backbone Problem” whitepaper
- Sign up for “Ten Myths about Internet Performance” webinar