The Benefits of Optimized WAN By Steven Goldmann About 60% of the work in most organizations today is done outside of the data center usually at remote branches, employees' homes, customer offices or on the road. As a result, organizations are increasingly migrating to distributed infrastructure - management and application operations are still concentrated in a single data center. This means that many key features, such as data capacity, application availability, and organizational continuity, depend on the efficient exchange of applications and data between remote sites.
Traditional wide area networks (WANs) have been plagued by extended data transmission completion times and low throughput barriers, including low bandwidth, latency, network collisions, and packet issues. This makes efficient replication of basic applications across the WAN impossible or at least difficult. Basically, WAN optimization allows more data to be moved faster with lower bandwidth connections.
Most issues, such as extended and incremental backup times, lost productivity, and expensive bandwidth usage, can be addressed with WAN optimization devices. By using technologies such as compression, Internet optimization and intelligent traffic routing, WAN optimization can reduce bandwidth costs by up to 60% and increase backup, deduplication and replication by up to 95%. It also improves disaster recovery services and speeds up backups. In view of this, the cost-effectiveness is obvious.
There are many WAN optimization products that can utilize a variety of technologies. In terms of quality, these products produce a range of results. Some products optimize bandwidth usage, while others focus on reducing latency (time delay between sending and receiving content) and other products improving network integrity and application replication.
There are two basic categories of WAN optimization products - hardware and virtualization software. The type of user choice depends on their needs and the advice of the Steven Goldmann technology provider.
Optimize the general advantages of WAN No matter which type the user chooses, there are many benefits. They will immediately notice the speed and ease of use of the application. Remote devices function as if they were