WAN Optimization
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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 WAFS in that it also addresses:
- SSL-encrypted ASP and Intranet applications
- Multimedia e-learning applications
Component techniques of WAN Optimization include WAFS, CIFS proxy, HTTPS Proxy, media multicasting, Web caching and bandwidth management.