What are the benefits of WAN acceleration/optimization?
The list gets pretty long, because there are obviously numerous benefits to be had if you can reduce traffic you’re transmitting to remote locations. On one hand, it allows you to consolidate resources in one central data center or in larger data centers scattered across your enterprise, rather than having distributed data in all of your potential remote-office locations. As you consolidate that data, you can do so in a way that your users don’t experience the lag time associated with traditional remote access. So, you get a better-performing infrastructure with consolidated data and your users in remote locations are still happy. At the same time, you reduce your costs for WAN circuits, as you can go with either smaller circuits or you can do a lot more with your WAN circuits. If you’re billed by utilization, you can reduce your costs or you can downsize your circuits. Much more significant than just the cost of your WAN circuits, you get to reduce the costs of managing your data at r
