Sometimes it’s surprising just how much cumulative savings can be gained through small actions. For example, if we all used one less gallon of gasoline a week, we’d reduce our oil imports by millions of barrels a year. The same is true with bandwidth usage. If your company can use just a little less WAN bandwidth each time an application is launched or a document downloaded, it can make a huge difference both in performance and in forestalling the need to lease additional circuits. More...

Nothing puts a damper on productivity like a slow wide area network connection. But the answer to better performance doesn’t always mean upgrading the WAN to a larger pipe for more throughput. More...