Actually, there are several companies doing "web acceleration" that offer more than just commodity gzip compression. gzip compression doesn't do a whole lot for companies with remote offices over, say, vsat connectivity because latency is the big killer there. I've tried several of these "accelerators" for enterprise web apps with varying results. Companies like Redline and Packeteer do simple things like gzip, while companies like FineGround go beyond that to solve bandwidth and latency issues with a collection of optimizations.
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Actually, there are several companies doing "web acceleration" that offer more than just commodity gzip compression. gzip compression doesn't do a whole lot for companies with remote offices over, say, vsat connectivity because latency is the big killer there. I've tried several of these "accelerators" for enterprise web apps with varying results. Companies like Redline and Packeteer do simple things like gzip, while companies like FineGround go beyond that to solve bandwidth and latency issues with a collection of optimizations.