Application Acceleration and WAN Optimization

Application Acceleration and WAN Optimization – Bandwidth has become relatively inexpensive from even 2 years ago. Customers can now purchase exponentially larger bandwidths at lower costs than before. Driving this need for larger pipes are companies expanded use of the internet, business applications, and even voice and video traffic being sent out. Although, bandwidth continues to get less expensive and usage continues to increase; most companies see the need to improve the performance of their WAN links. Here are some of the most prevelant reasons for doing so:

If you buy it they will come… if the bandwidth is available users will continue to expand their world wide web usage filling any gains in purchased bandwidth. By using caching, controlling the web-sites users go to and the content they receive, most customers can reduce their WAN performance requirements and lower their costs.

Bandwidth does not solve latency or Application inefficiency… If you live in town A and town B is 80 miles away, no matter how many of lanes of traffic you place in, it will still take you about an hour to get from Town A to Town B. The same rules apply for applications, even though electronic signals travel at lightspeed, it still takes time for your data to travel distance. If your applications or protocols are not built for WAN links they could communicate inefficiently thereby creating a lot of round-trip transfers and slowing the performance of your application.

CTC understands the network solutions and the application/business drivers to provide you with the best solutions for managing your wide area network and improve your customer performance.