Important Notice: Our web hosting provider recently started charging us for additional visits, which was unexpected. In response, we're seeking donations. Depending on the situation, we may explore different monetization options for our Community and Expert Contributors. It's crucial to provide more returns for their expertise and offer more Expert Validated Answers or AI Validated Answers. Learn more about our hosting issue here.

Why use WAN optimization? Isn’t TCP/IP adequate for storage applications over the WAN?

April 26, 2017adequate applications IP isn’t optimization storage TCP WAN

0

Posted

Why use WAN optimization? Isn’t TCP/IP adequate for storage applications over the WAN?

1 Answer

0

Posted

TCP employs very inefficient error recovery and session management techniques that provides less than 20% effective data throughput for most storage and data movement applications. Effective data throughput will degrade rapidly when there is packet loss, latency, network jitter, router buffer overflows, or bit errors. This results in major production window disruptions.