WAN optimization: Pain XOR gain
Ralf van Dooren
Snow BV
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High latency, low bandwidth, protocols designed with LAN-usage in mind (e.g.) CIFS) ; these elements don't ease your life trying to work remote and be mobile. Most problems cannot be solved by just adding more bandwidth. To mitigate these issues, you can buy WAN optimization solutions, who claim to speed up your WAN or mobile connection.

This presentation gives an overview of the WAN optimization landscape, both closed source and open source. It focus on the technical aspects of these solutions, their advantages and their drawbacks. It is vendor independent.

 Ralf van Dooren is Senior consultant at Snow B.V., a consultancy specializing in Networking and Unix. He constantly explores the IT landscape boundaries. With the passionate stubbornness of an engineer and the stubborn passion of a marketeer he introduces new technologies at his clients. In 2004 he was introduced to the concept of WAN optimization.


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