Best Practices for Packet Mode Optimization
Riverbed recommends that you use the following best practice guidelines when using packet mode optimization:
Target specific applications and servers for packet mode optimization - Similar to the considerations when performing optimization on TCP IPv4 traffic, certain traffic types do not lend themselves well to data reduction. For example, encrypted or compressed traffic does not receive significant data reduction. Riverbed recommends that you use rules targeting specific networks or ports instead of using broad All-IP targets. Traffic types such as TFTP or UDP-based replication traffic are example target applications. Do not optimize voice or video bearer traffic - While VoIP is one of the more pervasive applications over UDP, VoIP and video RTP traffic are already compressed using specialized codecs. If you attempt to perform further data reduction with SDR or LZ, it is ineffective and can add latency resulting in jitter. Use TCP proxy mode optimization - For application latency improvements for TCP IPv4 or IPv6 traffic, you can use the typical TCP proxy mode optimization. RiOS v8.5 or later includes TCP proxy mode optimization for IPv6 traffic.For information about IPv6 traffic, see
IPv6.