WAN acceleration gear grows up

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WAN acceleration gear grows up
By Tim Greene, Network World, 10/03/05

Businesses should expect to face a wide and confusing array of
choices when seeking the right WAN-acceleration gear to make
transaction times tolerable as they shift from branch office
servers to centralized server farms.

Centralization reduces the number of servers and so saves
capital and maintenance costs, and improves security. But it
also means more end users access data via the WAN - users who
will scream if performance degrades as a result.

Availl, Cisco and Brocade offer products tuned to speed up
specific types of WAN traffic - wide-area file services or WAFS
- which represent a large chunk of the new WAN traffic that
results when servers are centralized. But a throng of other
vendors says its more broadly focused gear is better suited to
real customer needs. All WAN traffic can benefit from
acceleration, they say, and not all WAN traffic is WAFS.

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