WAN Technology and Nuances1

WAN Acceleration

he advent of Wide Area Networks (WANs) and Internet have brought tremendous changes to current business practices. As the business segment is progressively reliant on WANs for business processes, there comes the need for technology and technological solutions that can accelerate WAN performance. WAN acceleration is a vital factor for ensuring business continuity. According to a Forrester report “The WAN Traffic Compression Market in 2005,” WAN performance was considered to be among the top five issues faced by the managers of enterprise IT infrastructure at companies whose revenue were more than $1 billion. This emphasizes the importance of acceleration of WAN applications. Read the rest of this article »