Hello to all, this article states that "There should be a good network connectivity between pull-distribution points and source distribution points so that you can achieve efficient and fast software distribution."

    Question: as far as I know DPs can compress data from source to them. Is it really important to have good connectivity to source so pull DPs can be used? Regular DPs can be used on a site that has no Secondary and still get SWs/Packets from its secondary server in a compressed way.

    Regards, EEOC.

    Question: as far as I know DPs can compress data from source to them. Is it really important to have good connectivity to source so pull DPs can be used? Regular DPs can be used on a site that has no Secondary and still get SWs/Packets from its secondary server in a compressed way.

That is incorrect. DPs and transfer to DPs add no compression. Even site to site transfers are not compressed, they are simply put into an archive to my knowledge.

The statement is a cause and effect statement. If the connection is not good, then you will not achieve efficient and fast software distribution. It doesn't say it won't work though.

You may be confusing compression for BITS.  Pull DPs _do_ use BITS for transfer unlike a traditional DP, and that adds some throttle options but not compression.