GRATIS Linux Open-Source - WAN Optimization - WAN Akselerasjon - TrafficSqueezer

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TrafficSqueezer Project Road Map

Release - Mainstream Series [Feb-2011 - till-date]

Here is the TrafficSqueezer - mainstream updated feature list:

funksjon Beskrivelse	Støttet/ikke-støttede	kommentarer
Støttet Enhetskonfigurasjon Modes
Routing Mode		Traffic Squeezer engines are hooked to Linux Kernel network -> IPv4, IPv6 routing APIs. So it supports routing mode.
Transparent Bridging Mode (Layer2 L2 Bridging)		Traffic Squeezer engines are hooked to Linux Kernel network -> bridge APIs. So it supports layer2 L2 bridging/Switching mode.
Lokal enhet og eller Local Server Optimization		Traffic Squeezer engines are hooked to Linux Kernel network -> IPv4, IPv6 local device packet RX, and TX flows and APIs. So it supports directly local device or local server optimization.
data optimalisering
Traffic packet/frame coalescing		Does coalescing/multiplexing of packets,there by it creates highly optimized tunnel.
Data Templating – version 19x		Optimizes HTML, Javascript, CSS and other scripts HTML, PDF and other file optimization MySQL DB communication optimization SSH/SCP Protocol handshakes SSL Optimization SMTP Optimization POP Optimization Citrix ICA Protocol Optimization RDP Optimization SPICE Protocol Optimization
Application Specific Optimization
HTTP Protocol Optimization – version 12x		Optimizes HTTP-Protocol handshakes HTML, Javascript, CSS Optimizes what is not covered in packet templating.
Packet Compression		Supported lossless compression algorithms: LZO (via LZO Linux Kernel Library), LZ77, RLE. (RLE/LZ77 via BCL Open-Source generic Compression Library, custom ported to Linux Kernel within Traffic Squeezer.)
Email Optimization		Supported via Templating.
DPI Filters		Supports Deep Packet Inspection of Application layer protocols: HTTP, DNS, SMTP, POP, etc. Supports extensive DPI logs and historic analysis via Aquarium.
L7filter Filters		Supports Application layers: DNS traffic filter.
HTTP-Caching, FTP-Caching		Supported via SQUID-Cache. TrafficSqueezer provides an abstraction over the same.
DNS-Caching		Supported via dnsmasq DNS-Caching. Traffic Squeezer provides an abstraction over the same.
Network Monitoring and Analysis
ytelse Statistikk
Historical Statistics		Historisk statistikk støttes kun via Aquarium.
TS Limited Firewall
datakryptering		Should be supported in future. Or can be done on demand.
QoS (Quality of Service)
TCP Optimization and Acceleration
WAN Simulator (Integrated)		Can use/configure a dedicated Traffic Squeezer machine as a WAN Simulatorinstead as Traffic Squeezer WAN Optimization solution.
VPN Support		Should support external VPN Deployments,but yet to be tested with local VPN setups namely via OpenVPN or IPSec.
High-Availability		Includes a custom simplified High-Availability feature which enables to configure a stand-alone backup Traffic Squeezer machine as a slave machine to enhance availability in a critical path/traffic based requirements.
Protocol Spoofing
Send TCP as UDP
Send UDP as TCP
IPv6-støtte		Should be supported in future. (Should be released during September-2011 or by Christmas-2011).
GUI Support		Supports extensive Traffic Squeezer GUI and automation via Doublefish Solutions Aquarium.
CLI Support		Traffic Squeezer CLI support is dropped after Traffic Squeezer - BETA series. (i.e CLI is dropped in on-going and future mainstream series)

Release - Beta [Sep-2010 - Feb-2011]

Traffic Squeezer - BETA is released and you can download the same.

Release - Pre-Beta (Prototype Version) - [Jun-2010 - Sep-2010]
This release is far more stable than the old releases. As well it incorporates a light-weight Application and refined TrafficSqueezer Kernel Core. It has also been provided with a integrated light-weight loosely-coupled new Device GUI.

This new Device GUI is suitable for both standalone installations such as Home users/SOHO/Corporate users. And even scalable for large Network service providers too. For more details about the new Device GUI please refer the section "Traffic Squeezer - Control/Configuration Interfaces" of the Documentation.

The Traffic Squeezer - PRE-BETA feature list is removed, since now there is new Traffic Squeezer - mainstream series is available. Updated: 12-Jul-2011.

Traffic Squeezer - Big Picture

TrafficSqueezer have been made or designed to remain highly modular. WAN Optimization the more we discover, we can find its highly creative and yet no single/major technique cannot be much standardized.

Hence to achieve optimization sometimes we need to write specific optimization techniques, or else at least we should bring some existing third-party open-source modules under one roof. Linux Kernel already have some open-source modules (mostly they exist for NON-wan-optimization context), TrafficSqueezer can make use of them in the WAN Optimization Context, in the Traffic Squeezer Context and so vice versa.

Performance/latency vs Data Optimization:
TrafficSqueezer delivers reasonable packet delivery rates, which is more adequate for a reasonable WAN/Leased-Link existing services. CPU/Mother-board/RAM speeds are keep improving, for WAN or any moderate speed network-links, we are now at a point that we can do huge data-processing via TrafficSqueezer on any basic high-end system.

Kernel vs User-space:
One can recollect for example IPSec is all Kernel solution, vs. OpenVPN is all User-space solution. Both have its own advantages and disadvantages.

TrafficSqueezer utgangspunktet noen tre år tilbake tenkt å gjøre det hele kernel løsning, mens pre-alpha er bygget for å teste noen mulighetsstudier / prototyping under 2006-2007 i alle bruker-space-modus. Senere Alpha er den første virkelige TrafficSqueezer i Kernel verdensrommet, mens pre-beta for nå er fremdeles alle Kernel løsning, men snart pre-beta bør få hybrid-mode, betyr optimalisering-moduler bør være tilgjengelig i Kernel plass, noen skal være tilgjengelig i bruker-plass. Det kan bli enda tilfeller der-som noen svært viktige kjerne optimalisering-moduler bør få støtte både i kjernen samt bruker-space. Grunnen til dette rare forslaget er at, basert på kravene, vs Time, vs Hardware vs Bruk-tilfeller bør brukerne få mer frihet til å velge den som er mest egnet for dem.

So this unique architecture is shown in the picture below:

Traffic Squeezer - Alpha, Beta
Dette er selve produksjonen utgivelse forventes å gi komplett sett med WAN Optimization teknologi beskrevet i dokumentasjonen. Kjernen TrafficSqueezer trafikken optimalisering funksjonalitet ville bli gjort i kjernen plass. Dette vil sikkert forbedre ytelsen. In-For å konfigurere den samme, ville en bruker-space konfigurasjonsprogrammet gis. Denne utgivelsen kan ha to varianter av TrafficSqueezer en som fungerer som en Layer-2-broen og det andre verket og fullstendig støtte Layer-3 IP-basert nettverk ruting og kan interwork i et IP-basert rutet nettverk. Runtime statistikk av Trafikk Squeezer, kan konfigurering og kontroll av det samme kan oppnås med brukeren-space programmet. Denne userspace programmet gir både Command Line Interface (CLI) og også en GUI Web basert konfigurasjon grensesnitt. I fremtiden bør det også støtte eksterne konfigurasjoner gjennom telnet og ssh sesjoner.

The final Traffic Squeezer architecture is expected to provide a complete FLEXIBLE and MODULAR solution to the end-user, abstracting completely low-level functional operation details. So, this includes a unified look and feel Traffic Squeezer Application and a Traffic Squeezer Kernel Level Framework.

Application Objectives:
* Allows users to configure Traffic Squeezer (both GUI/CLI based)
* Show the runtime statistics of the same (both GUI/CLI based)
* Show graph of the periodic runtime statistics samples (only GUI)

Framework Objectives:
* Any layer of PDU compression (L2 Payload, Transport Layer Payload or Complete frame,refer Traffic Squeezer Documentation)
* Any software compression algorithm(s) can be plugged
* Software Level Compression (Kernel Space) or Hardware Level Compression (Refer figure below)
* Support any third-party compression hardware accelerator cards (Refer figure below)
* Any Physical Layer Network and its corresponding Data Link Layer

Traffic Optimization in Hardware
The kernel space Traffic Squeezer in future can have a facility of a platform to which any custom Traffic Optimization can be done through any custom hardware. This is expected to make possible with the pluggable driver interface within the Traffic Squeezer Framework.

Whereas, to perform traffic data processing in hardware, a dedicated third-party hardware accelerator card performs the same job. Controlling/configuring the same can be achieved with the existing Traffic Squeezer standard user-space interface.

Release - Pre-Alpha (Prototype Version)
The prototype version of the Traffic Squeezer is the first primitive version/stage to test some capabilities which is provided by Traffic Squeezer. It supports the functionality in the user space also the data compression and frame coalescing done only on Layer-2 frame payload. The objective Traffic Squeezer software is to provide users a better way of creating a compressed and optimized data communication tunnel between two peers through which the L2 frame payload gets compressed. These features are showcased in the Traffic Squeezer first Pre-Alpha version. However this version is still a demo version, the actual Traffic Squeezer usable software would be released from Traffic Squeezer Apha and subsequent Beta versions. Refer Documentation for details.

Siste Revidert: 19-Mar-2013