Network Optimization

Wide Area Network (WAN) Optimization

The techniques of WAN Optimization help you to optimize the delivery of external and internal real-time latency-sensitive applications to different users. Critical applications are accelerated by optimizing traffic, conserving bandwidth and blocking recreational applications like watching video links that are not related to the work or personal chatting.

The network optimization products accelerate a number of applications that can be accessed by enterprise users by the elimination of redundant transmissions, staging data in local caches, streamlining chatty protocols and compressing data. With WAN optimization packet delivery issues can also be avoided.

How do WAN Optimization Solutions help you?

Network optimization solutions help in the following ways:

• LAN-like application performance is provided to branch offices and remote users.
• Superb performance for audio/video streaming is delivered.
• Repeated network bandwidth costs can be reduced.
• Live and on-demand media along with SSL-encrypted traffic can be accelerated.
• Unauthorized network traffic can be controlled.

Bandwidth management and WAN Optimization

The bandwidth has always been a matter of concern for managers engaged in business networking. Many corporate organizations dealing with enormous web content optimize the bandwidth to derive maximum benefit and hence bandwidth management finds its importance.

The major components of WAN bandwidth optimization are Traffic Management, Caching and Compression.

Why is optimizing WAN performance needed?

Optimizing network performance reduces database bottlenecks, increases response time by minimizing server and network overloads and downtimes. It further adds security to protect against attacks from virus, malware, spyware, etc. at the application level.

Network optimization controller reduces the traffic traveling on the WAN by the means of compression and caching according to your business requirements.

What are the steps for optimizing WAN performance?

• Goals and lower-level technical decisions and mapping to business requests should be determined.
• A baseline is to be created, that is, which applications, protocols and traffics are on WAN.
• Key monitoring and reporting needs should be defined.
• Types of tools required by you should be decided.
• The existing infrastructure should be examined.

What are the Network optimization tools?

COMET and Ethernet are certain network optimization and simulations tools which are adapted to new challenges and allow the following:

• Network behavior can be accurately modeled.
• Network extensions can be effectively planned, accurately identified, upgraded implemented and validated.
• Quality of Service can be supported.
• Resources can be optimized.

The COMET tool helps in optimizing many networks and from time-to-time facilitates the transition from a connectionless to a connection oriented network. It computes primary protection path and optimal load balancing.

COMET has the ability to perform analysis in which the network operator studies network configurations and also analyzes the impact of network failures and thus examines the network growth.