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Unclogging the WAN Pipes

on November 26, 2008 by Raul Barbara

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...