Tools To Make The Most Of Your WAN

摘要

Before you plunk down money for additional bandwidth for your branch and remote offices, consider WAN optimization. This technology delivers significant performance benefits and is a win for tight budgets because it can let IT delay the purchase of larger-capacity connections.WAN optimization appliances improve use of existing bandwidth by transparently reducing the amount of traffic pumped into the WAN. They smooth over TCP shortcomings via better window management, for example. They optimize chatty upper-layer LAN protocols like MAPI, HTTP, and Windows file sharing.