WAN Optimization Research & News Overview
About WAN Optimization
WAN optimization products seek to accelerate a broad range of applications accessed by distributed enterprise users via eliminating redundant transmissions, staging data in local caches, compressing and prioritizing data, and streamlining chatty protocols (e.g., CIFS). WAN Optimization is a superset of Wide Area File Services in that it also encompasses SSL-encrypted ASP and Intranet applications, and Multimedia e-learning applications. Component techniques of WAN Optimization include WAFS, CIFS proxy, HTTPS Proxy, media multicasting, Web caching and bandwidth management.
Related terms: Wide Area File Services (WAFS), Wide Area Data Services (WDS)
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F5 BIG-IP
F5 BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking platforms is a layer 4-7 device that improves throughput and ensures better application delivery.
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15 Case Studies
137 TechFacts
2 Research Reports
Blue Coat Systems PacketShaper
Blue Coat PacketShaper delivers integrated visibility, control and compression capabilities in a single appliance.
Cisco Wide Area Application Services
Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Software is a comprehensive WAN optimization solution that accelerates applications over the WAN, delivers video to branch offices, and provides local hosting of branch-office IT services.
Riverbed Steelhead
Riverbed Steelhead products accelerate application performance and data transfer over the wide area network (WAN), overcoming bandwidth and geographical limitations to improve productivity and enable global collaboration.
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