Zipping is crucial and it really solves the problem. I have already tested it with Net::OpenSSH and it works beautiful with default SSH compression. Gzip algorithm turned out to be fiendishly clever with this report-like data; 26 mb of sample report it was able shrink down to about 640 kb. That's what I call efficiency.

Theoretical maximum size of the data that system could give out is approx 486 mb per second, compressed down to 5% it would only take ~25 mb. 1 Gbit/s link can reliably transfer about 100 mb per second, thus allowing a decent spare capacity. Now, processing all this stuff is completely different question altogether, but this side I can control.

Thanks for the input anyway!

Regards,
Alex.