Wan Optimisation for Dummies: Your networking questions answered!

Overview

In many enterprises, solving application delivery over wide-area networks (WANs) has taken center stage. Organisations are becoming more geographically distributed, while centralised data centers and outsourcing of critical applications onto the Internet can cause applications to perform slowly (or not at all) in branch offices.

Many factors — latency, bandwidth, web-based applications, malware, and network misuse — can add up to productivity problems at remote sites. This book answers the question, “How can we get the WAN to perform like a LAN?”