WAN Optimization
Wide Area Network (WAN) Optimization technology is a combined technology force that can accelerate application performance, render high availability, and significantly increase throughput levels. WAN optimization techniques can be employed over varied types of access technology to give optimal performance of networks, bandwidth scalability and other network-boosting features.
Advantages
Enterprises employ a wide range of applications for business networking. WAN optimization products accelerate these applications by data and bandwidth compression, elimination of transmission redundancy, data prioritization, streamlining, imposing Quality of Service (QoS), and optimization of protocols and WAN solutions. By using WAN optimization devices, data transaction time between sites can be improved.
In the network-enabled business scenario, optimizing wide area network technology can substantially reduce the cost of infrastructure at remote locations through centralizing applications, server, backup, and storage resources in the data center. The business productivity and continuity are increased through application acceleration along with data backup and WAN replication across the network. Enterprises invariably seek WAN optimization solutions on order to keep their WAN infrastructure strong and capable.
Techniques
Listed below are some of the key Wide Area Network Optimization techniques, which enable Enterprises and organizations to establish and maintain a sound network to efficiently continue their business processes:
- Deduplication
- Compression
- Web Caching
- Wide Area File Services (WAFS)
- Common Internet File System (CIFS) proxy
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol over SSL (HTTPS) Proxy
- Media multicasting
- Forward Error Correction FEC)
- Bandwidth Management
