WAN Optimisation

If your firm suffers from slow-running applications and redundant transmissions, then WAN optimisation is probably the way forward. Its overall aim is to improve the performance of business applications over WAN connections.

Currently, the WAN optimisation market is as dynamic as ever, whereby there are many vendors offering a variety of feature sets. The best advice for any organisation looking to optimise their WAN settings is to be aware of their specific needs and check that a WAN optimisation will deliver the required demands. Perhaps also look at having a real life trial before committing to any purchases and changes. ITC can identify whether it is necessary to implement WAN optimising services in your organisation by firstly examining your specific needs.

Benefits

• Improves disaster recovery options
• Improves business continuity policies and plans
• Cost reduction & better response times
  By managing the varying types of traffic to optimise critical applications
• Lower bandwidth costs
  Across a large proportion of operating expenditure for wide-area data networks
• Minimised latency
  By effectively matching important business demands with the correct WAN resources
• Improved user experience
  Overall more efficient
• Reduce bandwidth cost
• Centralises applications
  Integrated approach to check the WAN is capable of dealing with the load

Features

• Compression
  Representing data patterns more efficiently
• Caching/proxy
  Relies on human behaviour
• Protocol spoofing
  Integrates all application requests into one
• Application shaping
  Allows or disallows specific traffic by making trends from previous patterns
• Equalising
  Assumes what needs immediate priority based on data usage
• Connection links
  Prevents access gridlock in routers
• Simple rate limits
  A stop gap first effort for remedying a congested internet
• Most products are hardware based
  But some are a hardware/software combination

Why ITC

ITC provide enterprise information security and have experience with many large enterprise clients. WAN optimisation is about delivering tangible performance benefits. We have unrivalled experience in this area, having increased WAN efficiency by over 40% for numerous of our Fortune 100 company clients.

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